A hands-on, easy-to-comprehend guide that is perfect for anyone who needs to understand algorithms.

With the explosive growth in the amount of data and the diversity of computing applications, efficient algorithms are needed now more than ever. Programming languages come and go, but the core of programming--algorithms and data structures--remains the same.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Algorithms is the fastest way to learn algorithms and data structures. Using helpful diagrams and fully annotated code samples in Javascript, you will start with the basics and gradually go deeper and broader into all the techniques you need to organize your data.

• Start fast with data structures basics: arrays, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, and more
• Walk through popular search, sort, and graph algorithms
• Understand Big-O notation and why some algorithms are fast and why others are slow
• Balance theory with practice by playing with the fully functional JavaScript implementations of all covered data structures and algorithms

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Make the most of today's JavaScript--even if you've never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is the fastest way to learn JavaScript, starting with the basics and gradually going deeper and broader into all the techniques you need to begin building highly scalable, performant web apps and experiences. Do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time!

Learn all this, and much more:

• Start fast with the basics: values, variables, functions, conditionals, loops, closures, and more
• Create well-organized, clear code that's easy to reuse and improve
• Learn proven best practices to build web apps that scale with outstanding performance
• Make the most of powerful object-oriented techniques to build complex, extensible apps
• Wrangle data like a pro by learning how to use the popular JSON standard, arrays, web storage, and more
• Translate your ideas into visually compelling and interactive content by learning how to work with the DOM
• Identify and fix issues quickly by learning how to use the in-browser development tools
• Understand the ins and outs of events and how you can use them to react to actions the user or the page will perform
• Learn how to ensure your code runs lightning-fast with extra coverage of performance optimizations and techniques you can use
• Learn the basics that set you up to more quickly use modern web frameworks like React, Vue, Next.js, and Nuxt
• Explore advanced features such as object destructuring, making web requests, the class syntax, accessing your webcam, variable hoisting, and more
• Get up-to-speed on the latest JavaScript enhancements proposed by the EcmaScript standard

This isn't your grandparents' book about the canvas that weighs a ton and contains a bunch of useless stuff that you can just find on Google or StackOverflow. Nope This book is about taking the hard parts about the canvas and explaining it in a casual way that makes sense. Every chapter is beautifully written, illustrated, and presented in grayscale...just like a dictionary Wait. Probably shouldn't mention that.

Thanks to faster browsers, better web standards support, and more powerful devices, the web now defines the next generation of user interfaces that are fun, practical, fluid, and memorable. The key? Animation. But learning how to create animations is hard, and existing learning material doesn't explain the context of the UI problem that animations are trying to solve. That's where this book comes in.

You'll gain a solid technical understanding of how to create awesome animations using CSS and learn how to implement common UI patterns, using practical examples that rely on animations to solve a core problem. Frontend web developers and designers will not only learn important technical details, but also how to apply them to solve real-world problems.

• Create animations found in common user interface implementations, such as bounce after scrolling, expanding search boxes, and content sliders
• Learn the technical details of working with CSS animations and transitions
• Use CSS transforms to very animate an element's position, scale, and orientation
• Understand the importance of easing

Who knew how simple using JavaScript could be?

Make the most of JavaScript--even if you've never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide is the fastest way to learn JavaScript and use it together with CSS3 and HTML5 to create powerful web and mobile experiences. Learn how to do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time. JavaScript has never been this simple!

Here's a small sample of what you'll learn:

• Organize your code with variables
• Understand how functions make your code reusable
• Use the popular if/else statement to help make a decision in code
• Learn about switch statements and when to use them
• Work with for, while, and do...while loops
• Learn how to use global and local scope
• Understand what closures are
• Learn about the various places your code can live
• Understand how to write comments and use good commenting practices
• Learn about the basic types of objects you'll run into in JavaScript
• Find out that pizza has an educational value beyond just being deliciously awesome
• Learn how to perform common string operations
• Use arrays to handle lists of data
• Learn to create custom objects
• Get up to speed on some of the big ES6 changes

We'll be dealing with collections of data using Arrays all the time. This book will start with the basics and dive deeper into all the cool things Arrays can do.

Learning React

A hands-on guide to building web applications using React and Redux As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much, much easier.
What React isn't, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help web developers new to React understand its fundamentals and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps. The only book on the market that helps you get your first React app up and running in just minutes, Learning React is chock-full of colorful illustrations to help you visualize difficult concepts and practical step-by-step examples to show you how to apply what you learn.

• Build your first React app
• Create components to define parts of your UI
• Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs
• Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript
• Deal with maintaining state
• Work with React's way of styling content
• Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle
• Build multi-page apps using routing and views
• Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and others
• Use Redux to make managing your app data and state easy

Contents at a Glance 1 Introducing React 2 Building Your First React App 3 Components in React 4 Styling in React 5 Creating Complex Components 6 Transferring Properties 7 Meet JSX... Again! 8 Dealing with State in React 9 Going from Data to UI in React 10 Events in React 11 The Component Lifecycle 12 Accessing DOM Elements in React 13 Setting Up Your React Dev Environment 14 Working with External Data in React 15 Building an Awesome Todo List App in React 16 Creating a Sliding Menu in React 17 Avoiding Unnecessary Renders in React 18 Creating a Single-Page App in React Using React Router 19 Introduction to Redux 20 Using Redux with React

This title serves as a starting point for learning and extending FrontPage's capabilities. It addresses the complete spectrum of FrontPage design issues, from analysis to the finished site. Topics include photo gallery, automatic Web content option, usage analysis and enhanced HTML editing.