In this article I will retrospect the first chapter of the book "Eloquent Javascript"
Table of Contents:
- Bits
- Values
- Numbers
- Precedence of the operator
- Special Numbers
- Strings and Character Escaping
- Ternary operator
- Difference between null and undefined (Empty values)
- Type coercion
- Short-circuit operators
Bits
In this computer world we are enveloped with the only data, and data comprises of Bits.
In simple words, bits are the combination of zeros and ones which we also called as the decimal number system.
For example: If we want to demonstrate "95" in bits which we want to convert into decimal number then its binary value would be 01011111
.. 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
And its non-zero digits would be 64+16+8+4+2+1 which adds upto 95.
- 8 bits represents 1 byte.
Values
Volatile and Non-volatile Memory
Volatile Memory requires power to hold onto the stored information. It is a temporary storage where all the information is erased when the computer is switched off. It is also called as primary memory.
Example: RAM, HDD, SSD etc.
Non-volatile memory is called as the permanent storage and which do not require power for the information to be static. Even if the computer switches off the information remains unvarying. It is also said to be secondary memory.
Values in simple words is the ocean of bits which is often divided into chunks to store preventing the loss.
In Javascript just call a value and you have one.
Numbers
- Javascript has a fixed 64 bits to store a single number value.
- Javascript does not have types of numbers as in other programming languages.
Can we store Negative numbers in that bit?
The answer is YES!, one bit has the sign of that number. Bit firstly it will be converted into the binary format and then its 2's complement will be taken into consideration.
Also the Fractional numbers can be stored, but they are stored in the form of dot. the calculation of the fractional numbers would not be always precise.
example:39.48In numbers we can also scientific notation.
example:2.458e9
where e(for exponent) followed by the exponent of the number.
Precedence of the Operators
- Precedence of the operators means how and in which order the arithmetic operations will be executed.
- The precedence is followed by the common rule of BODMAS which stands for Bracket Order Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction.
- When there are same precedence operators in the problem then it is executed from left to right.
- %(remainder or modulo) have the same precedence as of Multiplication and division.
Special Numbers
Special Numbers have three special values in JS.
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Infinity and Negative Infinity
The
infinitycomes into play when the magnitude of the operation is much larger or something is divided by 0.
The initial value of value of infinity(positive infinity) is greater than any other number
The initial value of Negative Infinity is smaller than any other number.
> infinity + 1
infinity
> 10^1000
infinity
> log(0)
- infinity
> 1 / infinity
infinity
> 1 / 0
infinity
We can use it using the following commands:
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY.
- NaN
- NaN(Not a Number) is itself a number The following expressions results into NaN.
> sqrt(-2)
NaN
> 8**NaN
NaN
> 0*infinity
NaN
> undefined + undefined
NaN
- NaN is the only number that is not equal to itself.
Strings and Character Escaping
Strings can be enclosed in quotes such as
single quotes,double quotes,backticksThe escaping character is used using backslash(). \ is called as escape sequence.
\b: backspace
\f: form feed
\n: new line
\t: horizontal tab
\v: vertical tab
Comparison and Logical Operators
Comparison operators are used to determine equality or difference between different values.
They are binary operators. In JavaScript when we compare strings the characters goes from left to right, based on the Unicode convention.
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Comparison operators includes:
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==Equal to -
===Equal value/type -
!=not equal -
!==not equal value/type -
>Greater than -
<Less than -
>=Greater than or equals to -
<=Less than or equals to
-
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JavaScript offers three logical operators
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&&and -
||or -
!not
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Ternary Operator
- Ternary operator in JavaScript contains three operators
Syntax: condition ? valisTru : valisFal
Example:
var status = (age >= 18) ? 'adult' : 'minor';
If the condition is true then valisTru will be executed otherwise valisFal.
Difference between null and undefined(Empty values)
These are values but they contain no information.
Undefined is when the value have not been assigned to the variable.
var(c);
console.log(c);
// undefined
- Null is the value which is empty or which does not exists.
var c = null;
console.log(c);
// null
Type coercion
In JavaScript if we assign wrong value to the operator then it automatically assigns the value which we do not expect without giving any error,
This is called astype coercion.Examples:
When something do not map in a number in this case "Six" and is converted into number will result into NaN.
> console.log("six" * 2);
NaN
- Arithmetic operation will keep producing NaN on operations on NaN.
- Type conversion is similar to type coercion because they convert one data type to another but the difference is Type coercion is only implicit but type conversion can be implicit or explicit.
Short-circuit Evaluation
The logical operators i.e. || and && evaluate from left to right and they short-circuit.
Example:
When the below command is executed the OR operation return true if the statement is true.
If the first operand is true then the JavaScript short-circuit do not move forward to the second operand.
console.log("Agnes" || "user")
// → Agnes
So this is it! This article was my review of the first chapter of the Eloquent JavaScript Chapter-1 and what I learned from it.
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Thankyou for coming this far. I hope this helps.
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Nice done, keep it up! :)