Eloquent JavaScript, 4th Edition

Start building beautiful web applications in JavaScript with the bestselling introduction to the language, updated with new features, fresh exercises, and fun projects. Simple for beginners to pick up, JavaScript is a flexible, lightweight language for building full-scale applications for the modern web. This much-anticipated fourth edition of This bestselling book teaches 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. As you build projects, like a website and a pixel art editor, you’ll: Isn’t it time you became fluent in the language of the web?

Auteur
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.

Contenu
Introduction

Part I: Language
Chapter 1: Values, Types, and Operators 
Chapter 2: Program Structure 
Chapter 3: Functions 
Chapter 4: Data Structures: Objects and Arrays 
Chapter 5: Higher-Order Functions 
Chapter 6: The Secret Life of Objects 
Chapter 7: Project: A Robot 
Chapter 8: Bugs and Errors 
Chapter 9: Regular Expressions 
Chapter 10: Modules 
Chapter 11: Asynchronous Programming 
Chapter 12: Project: A Programming Language 

Part II: Browser
Chapter 13: JavaScript and the Browser 
Chapter 14: The Document Object Model 
Chapter 15: Handling Events 
Chapter 16: Project: A Platform Game 
Chapter 17: Drawing on Canvas 
Chapter 18: HTTP and Forms 
Chapter 19: Project: A Pixel Art Editor 

Part III: Node
Chapter 20: Node.js 
Chapter 21: Project: Skill-Sharing Website 
Chapter 22: JavaScript and Performance

Exercise Hints 
Index