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Expert JavaScript

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  • © 2013

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  1. Mark E. Daggett
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Objects and Prototyping

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    Pages 1-30

  3. Functions

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    Pages 31-45

  4. Getting Closure

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    Pages 47-55

  5. Jargon and Slang

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    Pages 57-77

  6. Living Asynchronously

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    Pages 79-106

  7. JavaScript IRL

    • Mark E. Daggett
    Pages 107-130

  8. Style

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    Pages 131-150

  9. Workflow

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    Pages 151-173

  10. Code Quality

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    Pages 175-197

  11. Improving Testability

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    Pages 199-218

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-224
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About this book

Expert JavaScript is your definitive guide to understanding how and why JavaScript behaves the way it does. Master the inner workings of JavaScript by learning in detail how modern applications are made. In covering lesser-understood aspects of this powerful language and truly understanding how it works, your JavaScript code and programming skills will improve. 

You will learn about core fundamentals of JavaScript, including deep dives into functions, scopes, closures, and practical object-oriented code. Mark Daggett explains clearly how closures, events, and asynchronous code really operate, as well as conventions and concepts to write JavaScript in a clear, pragmatic style. Many of the changes in ECMAScript6 and its implications are all explained. You'll be introduced to modern workflow tools to make application development faster, more enjoyable, and ostensibly more profitable. You'll understand how to measure code quality and write more testable JavaScript, and finally you'll learn about real-world applications of JavaScript, including JavaScript-powered robots.

JavaScript is one of the most powerful languages on the web today, and it is only getting stronger. This book will take you through the process of planning, coding, testing, profiling and finally releasing your application, at expert level. With more frameworks and more improvements than ever, now is the time to become an expert at JavaScript. Make this journey - use Expert JavaScript today.

About the author

Mark E. Daggett is an pioneering New Media artist, professional developer and CEO of Humansized Inc., a social innovations lab in Kansas City. He is a co-creator of Pledgie.com, the popular crowd-funding platform, and an adjunct professor. He has worked for over a decade within the fields of experience and user interaction design, concept development and strategy, through a variety of start-up ventures, consulting and advisory roles. He is a Rockefeller New Media Grant nominee, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Le Monde, WIRED Magazine and Surface Magazine, among others.

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