# A Smarter Way To Learn JavaScript | Learn It Faster & Remember It Longer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** programming, hacking, tips-tricks\ **Created:** [February 7, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-smarter-way-to-learn-javascript-learn-it-faster-remember-it-longer/172083 "2021-02-07T13:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
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![image](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/1/d/1df354c7cdbec2262282a944165892be117093ed.jpeg) **Introduction:** Study, practice, then rest. If you’re intent on mastering the fundamentals of JavaScript, as opposed to just getting a feel for the language, work with this book and the online exercises in a 15-to-30-minute session, then take a break. Study a chapter for 5 to 10 minutes, practicing the lesson until you’ve coded everything correctly. Then go for a walk. Use the largest, most colorful screen available. This book can be read on small phone screens and monochrome readers, but you’ll be happier if things appear in color on a larger screen. I use color as an important teaching tool, so if you’re reading in black-andwhite, you’re sacrificing some of the extra teaching value of a full-color ebook. Colored elements do show up as a lighter shade on some black-and-white screens, and on those devices the effect isn’t entirely lost, but full color is better. As for reading on a larger screen— the book includes more than 2,000 lines of example code. Small screens break long lines of code into awkward, arbitrary segments, jumbling the formatting. While still decipherable, the code becomes harder to read. If you don’t have a mobile device that’s ideal for this book, consider installing the free Kindle reading app on your laptop. If you’re reading on a mobile device, go horizontal. For some reason, I resist doing this on my iPad unless I’m watching a video. But even I, Vern Vertical, put my tablet into horizontal mode to proof this book. So please: starting with Chapter 1, do yourself a favor and rotate your tablet, reader, or phone to give yourself a longer line of text. It’ll help prevent the unpleasant code jumble mentioned above. Do the coding exercises on a physical keyboard. A mobile device can be ideal for reading, but it’s no way to code. Very, very few Web developers would attempt to do their work on a phone. The same thing goes for learning to code. Theoretically, most of the interactive exercises could be done on a mobile device. But the idea seems so perverse that I’ve disabled online practice on tablets, readers, and phones. Read the book on your mobile device if you like. But practice on your laptop. If you have an authority problem, try to get over it. When you start doing the exercises, you’ll find that I can be a pain about insisting that you get every little detail right. For example, if you indent a line one space instead of two spaces, the program monitoring your work will tell you the code isn’t correct, even though it would still run perfectly. Do I insist on having everything just so because I’m a control freak? No, it’s because I have to place a limit on harmless maverick behavior in order to automate the exercises. If I were to grant you as much freedom as you might like, creating the algorithms that check your work would be, for me, a project of driverless-car proportions. Besides, learning to write code with fastidious precision helps you learn to pay close attention to details, a fundamental requirement for coding in any language. Subscribe, temporarily, to my formatting biases. Current code formatting is like seventeenth-century spelling. Everyone does it his own way. There are no universally accepted standards. But the algorithms that check your work when you do the interactive exercises need standards. They can’t grant you the latitude that a human teacher could, because, let’s face it, they aren’t that bright. So I’ve had to settle on certain conventions. All of the conventions I teach are embraced by a large segment of the coding community, so you’ll be in good company. But that doesn’t mean you’ll be married to my formatting biases forever. When you begin coding projects, you’ll soon develop your own opinions or join an organization that has a stylebook. Until then, I’ll ask you to make your code look like my code. Email me with any problems or questions. The book and exercises have been tested on many learners, but haven’t been tested on you. If you hit a snag, if you’re just curious about something, or if I’ve found some way to give you fits, email me at [mark@ASmarterWayToLearn.com](mailto:mark@ASmarterWayToLearn.com). I’ll be happy to hear from you. I’ll reply promptly. And, with your help, I’ll probably learn something that improves the next edition. **Chapters** 1. Alerts 2. Variables for Strings 3. Variables for Numbers 4. Variable Names Legal and Illegal 5. Math Expressions: familiar operators 6. Math Expressions: unfamiliar operators 7. Math Expressions: eliminating ambiguity 8. Concatenating text strings 9. Prompts 10. if statements 11. Comparison operators 12. if…else and else if statements 13. Testing sets of conditions 14. if statements nested 15. Arrays 16. Arrays: adding and removing elements 17. Arrays: removing, inserting, and extracting elements 18. for loops 19. for loops: flags, Booleans, array length, and breaks 20. for loops nested 21. Changing case 22. Strings: measuring length and extracting parts 23. Strings: finding segments 24. Strings: finding a character at a location 25. Strings: replacing characters 26. Rounding numbers 27. Generating random numbers 28. Converting strings to integers and decimals 29. Converting strings to numbers, numbers to strings 30. Controlling the length of decimals 31. Getting the current date and time 32. Extracting parts of the date and time 33. Specifying a date and time 34. Changing elements of a date and time 35. Functions 36. Functions: passing them data 37. Functions: passing data back from them 38. Functions: local vs. global variables 39. switch statements: how to start them 40. switch statements: how to complete them 41. while loops 42. do…while loops 43. Placing scripts 44. Commenting 45. Events: link 46. Events: button 47. Events: mouse 48. Events: fields 49. Reading field values 50. Setting field values 51. Reading and setting paragraph text 52. Manipulating images and text 53. Swapping images 54. Swapping images and setting classes 55. Setting styles 56. Target all elements by tag name 57. Target some elements by tag name 58. The DOM 59. The DOM: Parents and children 60. The DOM: Finding children 61. The DOM: Junk artifacts and nodeType 62. The DOM: More ways to target elements 63. The DOM: Getting a target’s name 64. The DOM: Counting elements 65. The DOM: Attributes 66. The DOM: Attribute names and values 67. The DOM: Adding nodes 68. The DOM: Inserting nodes 69. Objects 70. Objects: Properties 71. Objects: Methods 72. Objects: Constructors 73. Objects: Constructors for methods 74. Objects: Prototypes 75. Objects: Checking for properties and methods 76. Browser control: Getting and setting the URL 77. Browser control: Getting and setting the URL another way 78. Browser control: Forward and reverse 79. Browser control: Filling the window with content 80. Browser control: Controlling the window’s size and location 81. Browser control: Testing for popup blockers 82. Form validation: text fields 83. Form validation: drop-downs 84. Form validation: radio buttons 85. Form validation: ZIP codes 86. Form validation: email 87. Exceptions: try and catch 88. Exceptions: throw 89. Handling events within JavaScript [Download PDF](https://mega.nz/file/SCYBxaKD#zlW-S-TiTdI50i-bNLJzUsqmsQ9K3aYoDHB1Xoh0F0Y) **Happy learning!** ---
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