Welcome to Head First JavaScript Programming
This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model. You won’t just be reading—you’ll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And you’ll write real code, lots of it, so you can start building your own web applications.
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You should be typing in all the examples, but sometimes, when you encounter errors, it pays to have a working version of the code to compare against:
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- Watch the FREE set ofHead First JavaScript Programming Video Companions.
- Check out theHead First JavaScript Programming Extra about keeping track of this in your code.
- Learn to access and use theJavaScript Developer Console in your browser.
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