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Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser

ISBN: 1590591135
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 115

Authors: Harold Davis

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: Getting Started
• What Is Programming?
• Why Learn to Program?
• What Approach This Book Takes
• Understanding the Conventions and Icons
• Let s Talk Some More About JavaScript
• What Tools Do You Need?
• Writing and Running Your First Program
• Contacting the Author
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 2: Understanding Types, Variables, and Statements
• Understanding Types
• Understanding Variables
• Understanding Statements
• Understanding Operators
• Understanding Blocks
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 3: Using Conditional Statements
• Understanding Conditional Expressions
• Using If Statements
• Converting to Boolean
• Building the Rock, Scissors, and Paper Game
• Using Switch Case Statements
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 4: Working with Loops
• Creating a Prompt
• Working with For Statements
• Understanding While Statements
• Doing the DoWhile Thing
• Trimming a Tree with Nested Loops
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 5: Understanding Functions
• Creating a Function
• Using a Function s Arguments Array
• Don t Curse: Be Recursive
• Working with Window Methods
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 6: Programming with Arrays
• Creating an Array
• Reading and Writing Array Elements
• Adding and Removing Array Elements
• Iterating Through an Array
• Implementing a Stack As an Array
• Understanding Arrays of Arrays
• Using Array Methods
• Making Weird Comparisons
• Using the Form Elements Array
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 7: Working with Objects
• Understanding Object-Oriented Programming
• JavaScript OO Lite
• Creating Objects
• Creating an OO Auction
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 8: Understanding Events and Event-Driven Programming
• JavaScript Objects and Event Handlers
• Event Triggers
• An Example Using the Event Object
• Canceling a Form Submission
• Eavesdropping on Events
• Firing Your Own Events
• As Time Goes By
• Extending Tchatshke Gulch with a Timer
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 9: Manipulating Strings
• Using String Methods
• Converting a String to Upper Case
• Getting Playful with Strings
• Regular Expressions
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 10: Debugging and Exceptions
• The Different Kinds of Bugs
• JavaScript Syntax Errors
• Finding Bugs
• Exception Handling
• What s It All About?
• Chapter 11: Programming with JavaScript
• Password Protecting a Page
• Creating a Rollover
• Creating a Slide Show
• Where Do You Go from Here?
• Index
• Index_A
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
• Index_J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• Index_Z
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Examples
• List of Sidebars