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Se: Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming, 3rd Edition, by Marijn Haverbeke, 2019, B07C96Q217 (EloJS)

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Completely revised and updated, this best-selling introduction to programming in JavaScript focuses on writing real applications.

JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications.

This much anticipated and thoroughly revised third edition of Eloquent JavaScript dives deep into the JavaScript language to show you how to write beautiful, effective code. It has been updated to reflect the current state of Java¬Script and web browsers and includes brand-new material on features like class notation, arrow functions, iterators, async functions, template strings, and block scope. A host of new exercises have also been added to test your skills and keep you on track.

As with previous editions, Haverbeke continues to teach through extensive examples and immerses you in code from the start, while exercises and full-chapter projects give you hands-on experience with writing your own programs. You start by learning the basic structure of the JavaScript language as well as control structures, functions, and data structures to help you write basic programs. Then you’ll learn about error handling and bug fixing, modularity, and asynchronous programming before moving on to web browsers and how JavaScript is used to program them. As you build projects such as an artificial life simulation, a simple programming language, and a paint program, you’ll learn how to:

– Understand the essential elements of programming, including syntax, control, and data
– Organize and clarify your code with object-oriented and functional programming techniques
– Script the browser and make basic web applications
– Use the DOM effectively to interact with browsers
– Harness Node.js to build servers and utilities

Isn’t it time you became fluent in the language of the Web?

* All source code is available online in an interactive sandbox, where you can edit the code, run it, and see its output instantly.

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PRAISE FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS OF ELOQUENT JAVASCRIPT

“Provides some of the best explanations of programming concepts that I’ve ever read.” —SANDRA HENRY-STOCKER, IT WORLD

“If you choose to start your JavaScript journey with this book, it can quickly teach you a lot of technical information and also programming wisdom.” —MICHAEL J. ROSS, WEB DEVELOPER AND SLASHDOT CONTRIBUTOR

“I became a better architect, author, mentor and developer because of this book. It deserves to share shelf space with Flannagan and Crockford.” —ANGUS CROLL, TWITTER DEVELOPER

“The best introduction into any programming language and programming overall. Period.” —JAN LEHNARDT, CO-CREATOR OF HOODIE AND ORGANIZER OF JSCONF EU

“This is the book I give out when people ask me how to learn proper JavaScript.” —CHRIS WILLIAMS, ORGANIZER OF JSCONF US

“One of the best JavaScript books I’ve read.” —REY BANGO, JQUERY TEAM MEMBER AND CLIENT-WEB COMMUNITY PROGRAM MANAGER AT MICROSOFT

“A really good guide to JavaScript; but even more than that, this book is a great guide to programming.” —BEN NADEL, CHIEF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT EPICENTER CONSULTING

“A good book, suitable for those without experience in JavaScript and even those without programming experience.” —NICHOLAS ZAKAS, AUTHOR OF HIGH PERFORMANCE JAVA SCRIPT AND THE PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT-ORIENTED JAVA SCRIPT

“If you’re new to JavaScript, the first thing I’d recommend you do is visit Eloquent JavaScript and check out Marijn Haverbeke’s introduction to the language.” —CNET UK

About the Author:

Marijn Haverbeke is a programming language enthusiast and polyglot. He’s worked on a wide range of software systems, from databases to compilers to editors. He runs a small business around his open source projects.

Book Details:

ASIN: B07C96Q217
ISBN-10: 1593279507
ISBN-13: 978-1593279509
Publisher: No Starch Press; 3rd edition (December 4, 2018)
Publication date: December 4, 2018
Print length: 474 pages

Fortunately, if you can get over that fact, and maybe even enjoy the rigor of thinking in terms that dumb machines can deal with, programming can be rewarding. It allows you to do things in seconds that would take forever by hand. It is a way to make your computer tool do things that it couldn’t do before. And it provides a wonderful exercise in abstract thinking.

Most programming is done with programming languages. A programming language is an artificially constructed language used to instruct computers. It is interesting that the most effective way we’ve found to communicate with a computer borrows so heavily from the way we communicate with each other. Like human languages, computer languages allow words and phrases to be combined in new ways, making it possible to express ever new concepts.

At one point language-based interfaces, such as the BASIC and DOS prompts of the 1980s and 1990s, were the main method of interacting with computers. They have largely been replaced with visual interfaces, which are easier to learn but offer less freedom. Computer languages are still there, if you know where to look. One such language, JavaScript, is built into every modern web browser and is thus available on almost every device.

This book will try to make you familiar enough with this language to do useful and amusing things with it.

On Programming

Besides explaining JavaScript, I will introduce the basic principles of programming. Programming, it turns out, is hard. The fundamental rules are simple and clear, but programs built on top of these rules tend to become complex enough to introduce their own rules and complexity. You’re building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it.

There will be times when reading this book feels terribly frustrating. If you are new to programming, there will be a lot of new material to digest. Much of this material will then be combined in ways that require you to make additional connections.

It is up to you to make the necessary effort. When you are struggling to follow the book, do not jump to any conclusions about your own capabilities. You are fine—you just need to keep at it. Take a break, reread some material, and make sure you read and understand the example programs and exercises. Learning is hard work, but everything you learn is yours and will make subsequent learning easier.

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

A program is many things. It is a piece of text typed by a programmer, it is the directing force that makes the computer do what it does, it is data in the computer’s memory, yet it controls the actions performed on this same memory. Analogies that try to compare programs to objects we are familiar with tend to fall short. A superficially fitting one is that of a machine—lots of separate parts tend to be involved, and to make the whole thing tick, we have to consider the ways in which these parts interconnect and contribute to the operation of the whole.

A computer is a physical machine that acts as a host for these immaterial machines. Computers themselves can do only stupidly straightforward things. The reason they are so useful is that they do these things at an incredibly high speed. A program can ingeniously combine an enormous number of these simple actions to do very complicated things.

A program is a building of thought. It is costless to build, it is weightless, and it grows easily under our typing hands.

But without care, a program’s size and complexity will grow out of control, confusing even the person who created it. Keeping programs under control is the main problem of programming. When a program works, it is beautiful. The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity. The great program is subdued—made simple in its complexity.

Some programmers believe that this complexity is best managed by using only a small set of well-understood techniques in their programs. They have composed strict rules (“best practices”) prescribing the form programs should have and carefully stay within their safe little zone.

This is not only boring, it is ineffective. New problems often require new solutions. The field of programming is young and still developing rapidly, and it is varied enough to have room for wildly different approaches. There are many terrible mistakes to make in program design, and you should go ahead and make them so that you understand them. A sense of what a good program looks like is developed in practice, not learned from a list of rules.

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INTRODUCTION

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