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tech-unity.com; By James Pyles 		Mail this story
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Not only is this a good book to have if you want to learn JavaScript from the ground up, but it's a good book to have if you want to learn the basic principles of programming. Chapter 2, Programming with JavaScript alone is worth the price of admission. So many books seem to throw the reader directly into the JavaScript (or some other programming language), without describing how to do the basic steps of programming in that language. Chapter 2 is truly written for the beginner and takes the reader by the hand, showing them how to build a simple program from the ground up.

You move from "what's a variable" to variable types (numbers, strings...), to demonstrations of variables to associative arrays. Next, on to conditions and loops. You are introduced to if statements, if-else statements, and else-if statements. While loops and for loops are next on the menu, then functions are presented. Chapter 2 rounds out with an intro to objects. I'm leaving out the details that provide a simple and straightforward explanation to each of these concepts, as well as the sample code that lets the reader "try out" how they work.

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