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    JavaScript Projects for Kids
    JavaScript Projects for Kids
    JavaScript Projects for Kids
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    JavaScript Projects for Kids

    By FarukTowaha Syed Omar

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    About this ebook

    Gear up for a roller-coaster ride into the world of JavaScript and programming with this easy-to-follow, fun, and entertaining project-based guide

    About This Book

    - Get to know the concepts of HTML and CSS to work with JavaScript
    - Explore the concepts of object-oriented programming
    - Follow this step-by-step guide on the fundamentals of JavaScript programming

    Who This Book Is For

    If you've never written code before or you are completely new to the world of web programming, then this book is the right choice for you. This book is for kids of age 10 years and above and parents who are completely new to the world of programming and want to get introduced to programming.

    What You Will Learn

    - Learn how to work with Google Developer tools to iterate, debug and profile your code
    - Develop a Battleship game using the basic concepts of HTML and CSS
    - Get to know the fundamentals of JavaScript programming
    - Create our own version of Pac Man game.
    - Discover the vital concepts of object-oriented programming

    In Detail

    JavaScript is the most widely-used programming language for web development and that's not all! It has evolved over the years and is now being implemented in an array of environments from websites to robotics. Learning JavaScript will help you see the broader picture of web development.
    This book will take your imagination to new heights by teaching you how to work with JavaScript from scratch. It will introduce you to HTML and CSS to enhance the appearance of your applications. You’ll then use your skills to build on a cool Battleship game! From there, the book will introduce you to jQuery and show you how you can manipulate the DOM. You’ll get to play with some cool stuff using Canvas and will learn how to make use of Canvas to build a game on the lines of Pacman, only a whole lot cooler! Finally, it will show you a few tricks with OOP to make your code clean and will end with a few road maps on areas you can explore further.

    Style and approach

    This is an easy-to-follow, informative, and fun guide that takes a project-based approach to teaching programming in JavaScript. You will learn everything you need to get started with serious web application development.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJan 30, 2016
    ISBN9781783988495
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      JavaScript Projects for Kids - FarukTowaha Syed Omar

      Table of Contents

      JavaScript Projects for Kids

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

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      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Exploring JavaScript in the Console

      Installing Google Chrome

      Installing Atom

      Chrome Developer Tools

      Our first program

      Why do we use Chrome Developer Tools?

      Why do we use Atom as the text editor?

      Exercise

      Summary

      2. Solving Problems Using JavaScript

      Variables

      Comments

      Arithmetic operators

      Addition

      Subtraction

      Multiplication

      Division

      Modulus

      More operators and operations

      Increment or decrement operators

      Assignment operators

      JavaScript comparison and logical operators

      Summary

      3. Introducing HTML and CSS

      HTML

      Your first webpage

      More HTML tags

      Coloring HTML text

      Linking HTML text

      Inserting an image

      CSS

      JavaScript on an HTML page

      Summary

      4. Diving a Bit Deeper

      JavaScript methods

      HTML buttons and form

      Buttons

      Form

      If statement

      Switch-case

      Exercise

      Loops

      The for loop

      Exercise

      The while loop

      Exercise

      Summary

      5. Ahoy! Sailing into Battle

      The HTML part

      The CSS part

      The JavaScript part

      The final code

      Summary

      6. Exploring the Benefits of jQuery

      Installing jQuery

      Explaining the code

      Going deeper

      The load() method

      The keyup() and keydown() methods

      The change() method

      The blur() and focus() methods

      The resize() method

      The scroll() method

      Summary

      7. Introducing the Canvas

      Implementing canvas

      Adding JavaScript

      Drawing a rectangle

      Drawing a line

      A quick exercise

      Drawing a circle

      Draw linear gradient

      A quick exercise

      Let's make a clock!

      Summary

      8. Building Rat-man!

      Game user interface

      Adding functionalities to the game

      The app.main.js file

      The app.display_functions.js file

      The app.init.js file

      Images for Rat-man!

      The monsters folder

      The player folder

      The portal folder

      The walls folder

      Adding images to our cats

      Draw the canvas

      The app.key_handler.js file

      The app.movement_functions.js file

      The app.constants.js file

      Playing the game

      Summary

      9. Tidying up Your Code Using OOP

      Inheritance in JavaScript

      Encapsulation in JavaScript

      Dissecting Hangman

      Summary

      10. Possibilities

      JavaScript as your first programming language

      JavaScript is everywhere

      JavaScript developer as profession

      All chores can be done by JavaScript

      Robotics

      3D games

      Making apps for your smartphones

      Running web servers

      Running Ruby and Python

      Writing OS-independent desktop applications

      Web scraping and screenshotting

      Web analytics

      Responsive and interactive contents

      Animation

      Creating cookies

      Awesome JavaScript examples

      Summary

      Index

      JavaScript Projects for Kids

      JavaScript Projects for Kids

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      First published: January 2016

      Production reference: 1220116

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      Credits

      Author

      Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

      Reviewer

      Johnathan Iannotti

      Commissioning Editor

      Veena Pagare

      Acquisition Editor

      Aaron Lazar

      Content Development Editor

      Sachin Karnani

      Technical Editor

      Manthan Raja

      Copy Editor

      Vibha Shukla

      Project Coordinator

      Nikhil Nair

      Proofreader

      Safis Editing

      Indexer

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      Graphics

      Disha Haria

      Jason Monteiro

      Production Coordinator

      Arvindkumar Gupta

      Cover Work

      Arvindkumar Gupta

      About the Author

      Syed Omar Faruk Towaha has degrees in physics and computer engineering. He is a technologist, tech speaker, and physics lover from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet. He has a passion for programming, tech writing, and physics experiments.

      His recent books include Easy Circuits for Kids, Fundamentals of Ruby, and How You Should Design Algorithms. He is an Oracle-certified professional developer currently involved with a number of projects that serve both physics and computer architecture.

      He is the president of one of the largest astronomical organizations (Copernicus Astronomical Memorial of SUST (CAM-SUST)) in Bangladesh. He also volunteers for Mozilla as a representative.

      I wish to take the opportunity to thank the staff at Packt Publishing for their commitment and hard work, especially Sachin Karnani (Content Development Editor), Aaron Lazar (Acquisition Editor), and Nikhil Nair (Project Coordinator). They got numerous reviews, kept the book on track, and helped me in many ways. I really appreciate their input. I also wish to thank Johnathan Iannotti (Reviewer) for his constructive criticism and helpful comments.

      About the Reviewer

      Johnathan Iannotti is a software engineer and geek on an epic journey of life. His experience spans 15 years of technology solutions for start-ups, financial companies, healthcare, and military. He is passionate about web technology and has been creating hybrid apps since their inception. A full-stack developer by trade, he loves UX/UI, frontend development, and mobile.

      He works for USAA, creating mobile applications for over 27,000 employees that serve their military membership. He is also a combat veteran having served almost a decade in the United States Army.

      Johnathan spends his time innovating, coding, and making the best of it all. When he's not plugged in, he spends as much time as he can with his beautiful wife and two children who make it all possible. <3

      Follow Johnathan on Twitter at @notticode or visit his website at http://johnforhire.com/.

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      Preface

      As you can guess from the title of the book, this book is designed and set up for kids so that they can teach themselves JavaScript and create some projects using JavaScript.

      By abstracting the core web programming in an unparalleled way, JavaScript changed websites and web apps forever. Boring static websites and non-interactive websites have now become quite awesome with the touch of JavaScript. Using JavaScript, you can develop web applications, even smartphone applications too, quickly without compromising quality. You can be very productive and deal with almost no configuration on your hardware and software if you start playing with JavaScript. Please remember that this is not a reference book, but you can learn every basic concepts of JavaScript from it. So, for the kids aged 10 and above, this will be a perfect book to discover the world of JavaScript.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Exploring JavaScript in the Console, discusses JavaScript and the JavaScript Development Environment, including Google Developer Tools. We will install the necessary software and print a few simple lines of code in this chapter.

      Chapter 2, Solving Problems Using JavaScript, covers JavaScript fundamentals from the main syntax to some easy commands in the console. We will learn how variables work and what can be achieved with arithmetic operators. We will also run some simple commands to solve problems inside the console.

      Chapter 3, Introducing HTML and CSS, will make real use of JavaScript and will cover HTML, which empowers the readers to make use of JavaScript not only in the console but also in the browser's view. We will also explain the basics of CSS, such as CSS selectors, and CSS layouts.

      Chapter 4, Diving a Bit Deeper, covers some of the more advanced features that JavaScript offers. We discuss for and while loops, if statements, and switches-case.

      Chapter 5, Ahoy! Sailing into Battle, teaches us how to develop the famous game, Battleship. Building upon what we've learned in the previous chapters, the tiny tots will learn to put this information into use.

      Chapter 6, Exploring the Benefits of jQuery, is all about jQuery, a famous JavaScript library, and the advantages of using it.

      Chapter 7, Introducing the Canvas, discusses HTML canvas, and we will learn how we can use it on our projects.

      Chapter 8, Building Rat-man!, teaches us to develop a famous game, Pac-Man, except there is a rat, some cats, and lots and lots of cheese balls to eat! ;)

      Chapter 9, Tidying up Your Code Using OOP, teaches object-oriented programming (OOP) and discusses how JavaScript is an OOP language.

      Chapter 10, Possibilities, shows the reader what is possible using the skills they have developed reading this book.

      What you need for this book

      Throughout this book, we have used Google Chrome as our browser to run our JavaScript code on the console.

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