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What will you learn from this book?

The new edition of this brain-friendly guide takes you through a comprehensive journey into modern JavaScript, covering everything from core language fundamentals to today's cutting-edge features. You'll dive into the nuances of JavaScript types and the unparalleled flexibility of its functions. You'll also learn how to expertly navigate classes and objects, and finally understand closures. But that's just the beginning. You'll also get hands-on with the browser's document object model (DOM), engaging with JavaScript in exciting ways. You won't just be reading—you'll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript as never before. And you'll write real code, lots of it, so you can start building your own applications.
JavaScript is a programming language that didn’t come up through the ivy leagues with plenty of time for academic peer review. JavaScript was thrown out into the world out of necessity and grew up in the early browser neighborhood. JavaScript has been through quite the journey to get to where it is today: a fast, brilliant, modern language that is the programming language of the web. In this book, we explore modern JavaScript, covering the updated syntax and semantics that make coding more efficient and effective. We provide practical examples and best practices to help you master today’s JavaScript and build dynamic, robust applications. We don’t exhaustively cover every single aspect of the language. There’s a lot you can learn about JavaScript. This book is not a reference book; it’s a learning book, so it doesn’t cover everything there is to know about JavaScript. Our goal is to teach you the fundamentals of using JavaScript so that you can pick up any old reference book and do whatever you want with JavaScript.
The exercises and activities in this book are not add-ons; they’re part of the core content of the book. Some of them are to help with memory, some are for understanding, and some will help you apply what you’ve learned. Don’t skip the exercises. The crossword puzzles are the only things you don’t have to do, but they’re good for giving your brain a chance to think about the words in a different context