JavaScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Defining and Calling Functions

This chapter provides a quick introduction of using user defined functions in JavaScript. Topics include defining new functions, calling existing functions, passing primitive and object parameters, returning values, using local variables.

Defining Your Own Functions

Defining Your Own Functions - Example

Calling Your Own Functions - Example

Passing Parameters by Value or by Reference

Function Parameters Are Passed as Local Copies

Function Parameters Are Passed as Local Copies - Example

Global and Local Variables - Scope Rules

Global Variables - Examples

Local Variables - Examples

Collision of Global and Local Variables - Examples

"return" Statement and Return Value

Table of Contents

 About This JavaScript Tutorial Example Book

 Introduction to JavaScript

 ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects

 Data Types, Variables and Expressions

 Flow Control Statements

 Creating, Accessing, and Manipulating Arrays

►Defining and Calling Functions

 Web Browser Supporting JavaScript

 Server-Side and Client-Side Web Scripting

 Introduction to Objects

 Defining Your Own Object Types

 Inheritance of Properties and Methods through the Prototype Object Chain

 'jrunscript' - JavaScript Shell Command from JDK

 Using Functions as "Function" Objects

 Introduction to Built-in Object Types

 W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Specifications

 References

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