JavaScript from Beginner to Mastery (5th Edition)

This book is a JavaScript tutorial in the Software Development Video Lecture Series from Tsinghua University Press, written by the Mingri Technology team, which has long produced introductory computer textbooks, and published in its 5th edition in 2023. The book is organized into four parts and 24 chapters, progressing from the basics to advanced material. The Fundamentals part begins with an introduction to JavaScript, language basics, control-flow statements, and functions, and moves on to objects, arrays and collections, the String object, regular expressions, exception handling and debugging, and advanced JavaScript programming. The Core Techniques part covers event handling, the Document object, the Document Object Model (DOM), the Window object, the Browser Object Model (BOM), the Style object, and the Form object, explaining browser-side page manipulation. The Advanced Applications part covers image processing, XML, JSON, JavaScript security, Ajax, and Vue.js programming. The Project Practice part uses the “Starlight Movie Network” case to tie all the preceding material into a complete web development process. The book uses WebStorm as its main development tool, and most knowledge points are accompanied by examples and code comments. It also comes with micro-lecture videos, source code, PowerPoint slides, and practice exercises and problems. The book is intended for beginners studying on their own and as a reference for related courses in universities and vocational colleges. It suits readers who want to systematically master the fundamentals of native JavaScript and then move on to front-end technologies such as Ajax and Vue.js.