JavaScript for impatient programmers

JavaScript for impatient programmers makes JavaScript less challenging to learn for newcomers by offering a modern view that is as consistent as possible. No prior knowledge of JavaScript is required, but you should know how to program.

Table of Contents

• Before you buy the book
• FAQ: book and supplementary material
• Why JavaScript? (bonus)
• The nature of JavaScript (bonus)
• History and evolution of JavaScript
• New JavaScript features
• FAQ: JavaScript
• Using JavaScript: the big picture
• Syntax
• Consoles: interactive JavaScript command lines
• Assertion API
• Getting started with quizzes and exercises
• Variables and assignment
• Values
• Operators
• The non-values undefined and null
• Booleans
• Numbers
• Math
• Bigints – arbitrary-precision integers [ES2020] (advanced)
• Unicode – a brief introduction (advanced)
• Strings
• Using template literals and tagged templates
• Symbols
• Control flow statements
• Exception handling
• Callable values
• Evaluating code dynamically: eval(), new Function() (advanced)
• Modules
• Objects
• Classes [ES6]
• Synchronous iteration
• Arrays (Array)
• Typed Arrays: handling binary data (advanced)
• Maps (Map)
• WeakMaps (WeakMap) (advanced)
• Sets (Set)
• WeakSets (WeakSet) (advanced)
• Destructuring
• Synchronous generators (advanced)
• Asynchronous programming in JavaScript
• Promises for asynchronous programming [ES6]
• Async functions
• Asynchronous iteration
• Regular expressions (RegExp)
• Dates (Date)
• Creating and parsing JSON (JSON)
• Next steps: overview of web development (bonus)

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