Make the most of today's JavaScript--even if you've never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is the fastest way to learn JavaScript, starting with the basics and gradually going deeper and broader into all the techniques you need to begin building highly scalable, performant web apps and experiences. Do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time!

 

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Start fast with the basics: values, variables, functions, conditionals, loops, closures, and more
Create well-organized, clear code that's easy to reuse and improve
Learn proven best practices to build web apps that scale with outstanding performance
Make the most of powerful object-oriented techniques to build complex, extensible apps
Wrangle data like a pro by learning how to use the popular JSON standard, arrays, web storage, and more
Translate your ideas into visually compelling and interactive content by learning how to work with the DOM
Identify and fix issues quickly by learning how to use the in-browser development tools
Understand the ins and outs of events and how you can use them to react to actions the user or the page will perform
Learn how to ensure your code runs lightning-fast with extra coverage of performance optimizations and techniques you can use
Learn the basics that set you up to more quickly use modern web frameworks like React, Vue, Next.js, and Nuxt
Explore advanced features such as object destructuring, making web requests, the class syntax, accessing your webcam, variable hoisting, and more
Get up-to-speed on the latest JavaScript enhancements proposed by the EcmaScript standard