Summary

In this chapter, you learned a lot about the basic building blocks of a JavaScript program. Now you know the following primitive data types:

  • Number
  • String
  • Boolean
  • Undefined
  • Null

You also know quite a few operators, which are as follows:

  • Arithmetic operators: +, -, *, /, and %
  • Increment operators: ++ and -
  • Assignment operators: =, +=, -=, *=, /=, and %=
  • Special operators: typeof and delete
  • Logical operators: &&, ||, and !
  • Comparison operators: ==, ===, !=, !==, <, >, >=, and <=
  • The ternary operator: ?

Then you learned how to use arrays to store and access data, and finally you saw different ways to control the flow of your program using conditions (if...else or switch) and loops (while, do...while, for, and for...in).

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