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Your filter selection:. JavaScript Blogs for Beginners. Top Tutorials upvotes recent. So, the alert shows 2. So, the alert shows 1. Their precedence is higher than most other arithmetical operations. Though technically okay, such notation usually makes code less readable. One line does multiple things — not good. Bitwise operators treat arguments as bit integer numbers and work on the level of their binary representation.
These operators are not JavaScript-specific. They are supported in most programming languages. These operators are used very rarely. It would be more practical to do that when a real need arises. Such operators have the same precedence as a normal assignment, so they run after most other calculations:. The comma operator , is one of the rarest and most unusual operators. The comma operator allows us to evaluate several expressions, dividing them with a comma ,.
Each of them is evaluated but only the result of the last one is returned. Sometimes, people use it in more complex constructs to put several actions in one line. Such tricks are used in many JavaScript frameworks. Like all other operators, a comparison returns a value.
In this case, the value is a boolean. Compare the first character of both strings. Repeat until the end of either string. If both strings end at the same length, then they are equal. Otherwise, the longer string is greater. G is the same as G.
Stop here. The first string is greater. For instance, case matters. A capital letter "A" is not equal to the lowercase "a". Which one is greater? The lowercase "a". Because the lowercase character has a greater index in the internal encoding table JavaScript uses Unicode.
An equality check converts values using the numeric conversion hence "0" becomes 0 , while the explicit Boolean conversion uses another set of rules. An empty string, just like false , becomes a zero. The last result states that " null is greater than or equal to zero", so in one of the comparisons above it must be true , but they are both false. Comparisons convert null to a number, treating it as 0.
Evade problems Why did we go over these examples? Should we remember these peculiarities all the time? Well, not really. If a variable can have these values, check for them separately.
The mini-window with the message is called a modal window. The visitor may type something in the prompt input field and press OK. Or they can cancel the input by pressing Cancel or hitting the Esc key. The call to prompt returns the text from the input field or null if the input was canceled. It returns the text or, if Cancel button or Esc is clicked, null. There are two limitations shared by all the methods above:. The exact location of the modal window is determined by the browser.
The exact look of the window also depends on the browser. That is the price for simplicity. Conditional operators: if, '? To do that, we can use the if statement and the conditional operator? If we want to execute more than one statement, we have to wrap our code block inside curly braces:.
Doing so improves readability. The if … statement evaluates the expression in its parentheses and converts the result to a boolean. The else if clause lets us do that. If that is also falsy, it shows the last alert. The operator is represented by a question mark? It is actually the one and only operator in JavaScript which has that many. A sequence of question mark operators? If true — it returns 'Hi, baby! Instead, we execute different code depending on the condition.
The notation is shorter than the equivalent if statement, which appeals to some programmers. But it is less readable. Our eyes scan the code vertically. Code blocks which span several lines are easier to understand than a long, horizontal instruction set. The purpose of the question mark operator?
Please use it for exactly that. Use if when you need to execute different branches of code. Using the if.. Their result can also be of any type. In classical programming, the logical OR is meant to manipulate boolean values only. If any of its arguments are true , it returns true , otherwise it returns false.
In JavaScript, the operator is a little bit trickier and more powerful. Most of the time, OR is used in an if statement to test if any of the given conditions is true.
The logic described above is somewhat classical. The extended algorithm works as follows. If the result is true , stops and returns the original value of that operand.
In other words, a chain of OR " " returns the first truthy value or the last one if no truthy value is found. Getting the first truthy value from a list of variables or expressions. How can we find the first one with data? Operands can be not only values, but arbitrary expressions.
OR evaluates and tests them from left to right. The evaluation stops when a truthy value is reached, and the value is returned. This is clearly seen when the expression given as the second argument has a side effect like a variable assignment. If, instead, the first argument is false , evaluates the second one, thus running the assignment:. An assignment is a simple case. As we can see, such a use case is a "shorter way of doing if ". The first operand is converted to boolean.
If the result is false , stops and returns the original value of that operand. The rules above are similar to OR. But if is more obvious and tends to be a little bit more readable. Returns the inverse value. In the end, we have a plain value-to-boolean conversion. The precedence of NOT! Hint: passing an empty input to a prompt returns an empty string ''. Pressing ESC during a prompt returns null.
For example, outputting goods from a list one after another or just running the same code for each number from 1 to A single execution of the loop body is called an iteration. The loop in the example above makes three iterations. In practice, the browser provides ways to stop such loops, and in server-side JavaScript, we can kill the process. Any expression or variable can be a loop condition, not just comparisons: the condition is evaluated and converted to a boolean by while.
This form of syntax should only be used when you want the body of the loop to execute at least once regardless of the condition being truthy. The loop below runs alert i for i from 0 up to but not including 3 :. If you are new to loops, it could help to go back to the example and reproduce how it runs step- by-step on a piece of paper. Such variables are visible only inside the loop.
Please note that the two for semicolons ; must be present. Otherwise, there would be a syntax error. Normally, a loop exits when its condition becomes falsy. But we can force the exit at any time using the special break directive. It stops the loop immediately, passing control to the first line after the loop. Namely, alert. Instead, it stops the current iteration and forces the loop to start a new one if the condition allows.
For even values of i , the continue directive stops executing the body and passes control to the next iteration of for with the next number.
So the alert is only called for odd values. From a technical point of view, this is identical to the example above. Surely, we can just wrap the code in an if block instead of using continue. But as a side-effect, this created one more level of nesting the alert call inside the curly braces.
If the code inside of if is longer than a few lines, that may decrease the overall readability. Please note that syntax constructs that are not expressions cannot be used with the ternary operator? For example, in the code below we loop over i and j , prompting for the coordinates i, j from 0,0 to 3,3 :. The ordinary break after input would only break the inner loop. In the code above, break outer looks upwards for the label named outer and breaks out of that loop.
The continue directive can also be used with a label. In this case, code execution jumps to the next iteration of the labeled loop. Such a loop, just like any other, can be stopped with the break directive.
For every loop iteration, write down which value it outputs and then compare it with the solution. Rewrite the code changing the for loop to while without altering its behavior the output should stay same. If the visitor enters another number — ask them to input again. Here we can assume that the visitor only inputs numbers. For example, 5 is a prime, because it cannot be divided without a remainder by 2 , 3 and 4.
The "switch" statement A switch statement can replace multiple if checks. The values must be of the same type to match. For 0 , 1 , the first alert runs. For 2 the second alert runs. The default variant will execute. For example, we need to show a nice-looking message when a visitor logs in, logs out and maybe somewhere else. They allow the code to be called many times without repetition.
But we can create functions of our own as well. The call showMessage executes the code of the function. Here we will see the message two times. This example clearly demonstrates one of the main purposes of functions: to avoid code duplication. If a same-named variable is declared inside the function then it shadows the outer one. For instance, in the code below the function uses the local userName.
The outer one is ignored:. Modern code has few or no globals. Most variables reside in their functions. Sometimes though, they can be useful to store project-level data. Then the function uses them. Please note: the function changes from , but the change is not seen outside, because a function always gets a copy of the value:. Such a call would output "Ann: undefined". Here "no text given" is a string, but it can be a more complex expression, which is only evaluated and assigned if the parameter is missing.
So, this is also possible:. In the example above, anotherFunction is called every time showMessage is called without the text parameter.
This is in contrast to some other languages like Python, where any default parameters are evaluated only once during the initial interpretation. So there are alternative ways to support them, that you can find mostly in the old scripts. The directive return can be in any place of the function. When the execution reaches it, the function stops, and the value is returned to the calling code assigned to result above.
So, it effectively becomes an empty return. We should put the value on the same line instead. Functions are actions. So their name is usually a verb. It should be brief, as accurate as possible and describe what the function does, so that someone reading the code gets an indication of what the function does. It is a widespread practice to start a function with a verbal prefix which vaguely describes the action. There must be an agreement within the team on the meaning of the prefixes.
For instance, functions that start with "show" usually show something. With prefixes in place, a glance at a function name gives an understanding what kind of work it does and what kind of value it returns. Two independent actions usually deserve two functions, even if they are usually called together in that case we can make a 3rd function that calls those two.
These examples assume common meanings of prefixes. In any case, you should have a firm understanding of what a prefix means, what a prefixed function can and cannot do. All same-prefixed functions should obey the rules. And the team should share the knowledge. Functions should be short and do exactly one thing. A separate function is not only easier to test and debug — its very existence is a great comment! For instance, compare the two functions showPrimes n below. Instead of the code piece we see a name of the action isPrime.
Sometimes people refer to such code as self-describing. They structure the code and make it readable. But it works only from inside out. It is always easier to understand a function which gets parameters, works with them and returns a result than a function which gets no parameters, but modifies outer variables as a side-effect.
When we see a function call in the code, a good name instantly gives us an understanding what it does and returns. Use them to hint what a function does. Functions are the main building blocks of scripts. We are going to return to them many times, going more deeply into their advanced features.
Write a function pow x,n that returns x in power n. Or, in other words, multiplies x by itself n times and returns the result. There is another syntax for creating a function that is called a Function Expression. It looks like this:.
Here, the function is created and assigned to the variable explicitly, like any other value. The meaning of these code samples is the same: "create a function and put it into the variable sayHi ". Please note that the last line does not run the function, because there are no parentheses after sayHi.
There are programming languages where any mention of a function name causes its execution, but JavaScript is not like that.
In JavaScript, a function is a value, so we can deal with it as a value. The code above shows its string representation, which is the source code. The Function Declaration 1 creates the function and puts it into the variable named sayHi. Please note again: there are no parentheses after sayHi. You might wonder, why does Function Expression have a semicolon ; at the end, but Function Declaration does not:.
The semicolon ; is recommended at the end of statements, no matter what is the value. So the semicolon here is not related to the Function Expression itself in any way, it just terminates the statement. The major difference between a real-life implementation and the example above is that real-life functions use more complex ways to interact with the user than a simple confirm.
In the browser, such a function usually draws a nice-looking question window. Here, functions are declared right inside the ask They have no name, and so are called anonymous. From the basics to advanced topics with simple, but detailed explanations. Main course contains 2 parts which cover JavaScript as a programming language and working with a browser. There are also additional series of thematic articles.
Learning how to manage the browser page: add elements, manipulate their size and position, dynamically create interfaces and interact with the visitor. We want to make this open-source project available for people all around the world. Tutorial map. Table of contents Main course contains 2 parts which cover JavaScript as a programming language and working with a browser.
Part 1. We concentrate on the language itself here, with the minimum of environment-specific notes. An introduction. An Introduction to JavaScript. Manuals and specifications. JavaScript Fundamentals. The modern mode, "use strict". Interaction: alert, prompt, confirm.
Type Conversions. Conditional branching: if, '? Logical operators. Nullish coalescing operator '?? The "switch" statement. Function expressions. Arrow functions, the basics. JavaScript specials. Code quality. Debugging in the browser. There are more possibilities.
Note that variables are case sensitive. That means lastname and lastName will be handled as two different variables. Objects are certain kinds of variables. They are variables that can have their own values and methods. The latter are actions that you can perform on objects. Next up in our JavaScript cheat sheet are arrays.
Arrays are part of many different programming languages. They are a way of organizing variables and properties into groups. Now you have an array called fruit which contains three items that you can use for future operations. If you have variables, you can use them to perform different kinds of operations. To do so, you need operators. JavaScript functions are blocks of code that perform a certain task.
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