Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
1. A Quick Dip into Javascript: Getting your Feet Wet
The way JavaScript works
How you’re going to write JavaScript
How to get JavaScript into your page
A little test drive
JavaScript, you’ve come a long way...
How to make a statement
Variables and values
Constants, another kind of variable
Back away from that keyboard!
Express yourself
Doing things more than once
How the while loop works
Making decisions with JavaScript
And, when you need to make LOTS of decisions
Reach out and communicate with your user
Create an alert
Write directly into your document
Use the console
Directly manipulate your document
A closer look at console.log
Opening the console
Coding a Serious JavaScript Application
How do I add code to my page? (let me count the ways)
We’re going to have to separate you two
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2. Writing Real Code: Going Further
Let’s build a Battleship game
Our first attempt...
... a simplified Battleship
First, a high-level design
A few more details...
Representing the ships
Getting user input
Displaying the results
Working through the Pseudocode
Oh, before we go any further, don’t forget the HTML!
Writing the Simple Battleship code
Now let’s write the game logic
Step One: setting up the loop, getting some input
How prompt works
Checking the user’s guess
So, do we have a hit?
Adding the hit detection code
Hey, you sank my battleship!
Provide some post-game analysis
And that completes the logic!
Doing a little Qualit y Assurance
Can we talk about your verbosit y...
Finishing the Simple Battleship game
How to assign random locations
The recipe for generating a random number
Back to do a little more QA
Congrats on your first true JavaScript program, and a short word about reusing code
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