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今日推荐英文原文：《Understanding JavaScript Data Types and Variables》作者：Codesmith

原文链接：https://codeburst.io/understanding-javascript-data-types-and-variables-ea191be3a37f

推荐理由：为 JS 初学者提供的介绍 JS 中数据类型和变量的文章

Understanding JavaScript Data Types and Variables

Welcome, Fresh Coders!

If you’ve ever had the pleasure(or displeasure)of sitting through an Algebra 1 class, you’ve probably heard about variables. You know, x + 4 = 6 and all that good stuff. Don’t worry. JavaScript variables are much less scarier. You get to declare them so that you know exactly what they are. And, for the love of all that’s holy, don’t name your variables x or y or z. Give them reader-friendly names so that you’re not staring at a quadratic equation by the time you’re finished coding.

First, before we start messing around with variables and learning what variable deceleration even means, let’s learn to need them. By that I mean let’s get a little cozy with operators and data.

Data Types

Open up your Twitter or Instagram account and you’re hit with a log in screen prompting you to enter your information. When you enter your username and password, you’ve just entered data. You fill out a survey, you like a post, you order ten fidget spinners on Amazon — all of that is data.

In JavaScript, this data is divided into three groups:

1 ) Numbers

Numbers are exactly what you’ve known them to be all your life — 1, 50, 22.3, 5…Integers, decimals, fractions.

JavaScript is real friendly when it comes to numbers, because you don’t have to specify the type of number. We call this behavior untyped. JavaScript is untyped because determining whether a number is an integer or a decimal(float) is taken care of by the language’s runtime environment.

Why don’t you try entering typeof 5 into the editor and hit the run button. You should get 'number'.

Pro tip: typeof 5 is called a statement. You wrote JavaScript code and expected to get a value in return.

2) Strings: “Hello there”

Strings are simply fields of text. Even the words you’re reading now form a string. To encase these words, we use quotes. Keep in mind that strings aren’t limited to run-on sentences.

In JavaScript, this is also a string: "123";

typeof "1,2,3";

typeof "hello world";

You can probably guess by now that your passwords are stringy bytes of data.

3) Boolean: True, False

Don’t let the name throw you off. It’s the namesake of the mathematician George Bool. Booleans only have two values: true and false.

typeof true;
typeof false;

As you’ll come to know, these are important values when it comes to adding logic to our programs.With just those two values, you can create a complex system of loops and conditions.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We will explore the depths of conditions and loops another time.

For now, let’s move onto what makes all of this data worthwhile.

Operators

What’s the use of data if you can’t do anything to it? That’s where operators come in. Each data type (Numbers, Strings, Boolean) share a set of operators that you can use to come up with nifty solutions to problems. There are four important categories of operators that you’ll use throughout your time as a JavaScript developer and they are

1)Arithmetic Operators

addition +

Number:1234 + 4579;

String:"hello" + "Jerry";

Yes, you can add a string. There’s a fancy term for this called string concatenation. Notice how the two strings glob together. We can solve this problem by adding an empty string in between.

"hello" + " " + "Jerry";

Boolean: true + false;

Performing arithmetic operations on boolean values actually returns a value. In this case, the value 1 isn’t just any ordinary 1. It’s a bitwise 1. In the language of computers, this translates to true. So, we can conclude that true plus false equals true.

Why is that so? You’ll understand once we turn true and false into what our computer actually sees.

computer:
true: 1, false: 0
result:
1 + 0 or 0 + 1 = 1

subtraction –

Number:1234 - 1234;
String: NaN Note: NaN(Not a Number) is the error you’ll get when you try to subtract String values.
Boolean: true - false; or false - true;

division /

Number:1234 / 1234;
String: NaN
Boolean: true / false; or false/true;

multiplication /

Number:1234 * 1234;
String: NaN
Boolean: true * false; or false * true;

modulo %

This cool operator tells us the remainder of a division of two values.

Number: 10%3;String: NaNBoolean: true % false; or false % true;

Increment ++

++ is a fancy way to say add 1 to any value. It matters where you put the incrementer. Oh, and by the way, we need variables now. JavaScript’s interpreter can’t read ++10 if 10 is not saved inside a variable. why? Because plus, plus is what we call syntactic sugar. It’s something that was created to make life easier for developers, because it turns out we’re pretty lazy. Instead of saying 10 + 1, we get to forgo adding the 1. Since plus,plus is technically not a real arithmetic operator, you need to define a variable so that you won’t get errors.

Before we start our lesson on variables, try playing around with them. Type this into a code editor:

var cookies = 5;
console.log(cookies++); > 5
console.log(++cookies); > 7

The variable names are arbitrary. You can name them whatever you like. As we’ll explore later, it’s best to name them appropriately.

Pro tip: var cookies = 5; is called an expression. You defined what value cookie has but you didn’t ask for its value. As you learned earlier, this would be a statement: cookies;

Note: console.log() is a web tool that prints JavaScript code to a console. Every web browser has a console you can access. This “web tool” is really called a Web API. It’s much easier to think of API’s as a set of tools that make your job a whole lot easier.

So…why are we not getting the values we expect???

Well, writing the variable before ++ gives us the original value before it can be incremented and vice versa.

Think of it this way: we asked the baker for 5 cookies before he knew we wanted to add one more to the order(cookies | ++).

We receive a receipt saying we ordered five, but when we ask for one more, the baker runs back to get us one more(so, we have 6 cookies now).

The baker returns, but we ask for one more again(++ | cookies).

Finally, when we ask for our cookies, our total is 7 cookies.

JavaScript’s interpreter is that poor baker when it comes to incrementing and decrementing.

decrement — -

Number: -- number

String: NaN
Boolean: --true

+= Plus Equals, and -= Minus Equals, and *= Times Equals, and /= Divided Equals

It turns out programmers are lazier than you thought. Yes, there are more arithmetic shortcuts.

Say you have var score = 5; and, instead of incrementing score by 1, you want to increment it by 6.

Normally you’d write score = score + 6;

With Plus Equals you simply have to write it as score += 6;
Why don’t you try it out with different operators?

2. Comparison Operators

logical operators return true or false. Without them, we wouldn’t have all of the apps that are available to us.

operators

equals ==
not equal !=
greater >
less <
greater/equal< =
less/equal> =

There’s also a special triple equals(===). This checks to make sure that the types are the same as well.

Try this out: 3 == '3';. You got true, right? The fact that JavaScript ignored our stringed ‘3’ can cause some unwanted bugs. To fix this, add another equals. Now you should get false. That’s because triple equals also ensures that the types are exactly the same as well.

Operators are useful for conditional logic. Let’s use an if/else statement to test out an equals operator.

If ('you feel overwhelmed by this new topic'){
 'Do not worry. Sometimes the best way to learn is to try and fail'
}else {
 'Let's get this show on the road!'
}

Try this real if/else statement.

if(2==3){
 console.log('correctomundo');
}else {
console.log('wrooong');
}

Note: the end of if statements don’t receive semi-colons. Here’s a pro tip: Exclude them from any statements or expressions ending in a bracket.
Be sure to use different data types in your if/else statement. You can even play around with all of the operators you’ve learned so far.

3. Logical Operators

Logical and &&, Logical or||, Logical not !

Logical operators allows us to add complexity to our conditional statements. Practically, if you want maximum control over a condition, you’d use && because all of the conditions must be met in order to be true. Conversely, if you want the condition to be more inclusive, you’d use || because only one condition has to be true to get a return value of true.

if(2==2&&3==3&&3==2){
 console.log('correctomundo');
}else {
console.log('wrooong');
}

Variables, Finally!

So, you were introduced to variables prematurely. Even then, you saw how badly we needed a variable in order to get the increment and decrement operator working.
Now, let’s think of numbers, strings, and booleans as Snap chat photos that ghost away after a short period. They don’t stay around long enough to be useful. If you want to use the same data, you’d have to re-type it somewhere else in your JavaScript file.

Imagine having to write this formula over and over again: 1/2(60 * 120);

Or this really long string: "superkalafragilisticespialadocious";.

What a variable does is allow us to save data so that we can use it again.
Let’s declare two variables

var triangleArea, poppinsQoute;

Now for some takeaways:

The var keyword creates what’s called a global variable. It’s like taking a shower in public. Everyone can see you. In JavaScript, we have blocks, like neighborhood blocks. Within our if/else statements, we wrote a block of code that only ran based on certain conditions. Those two variables can be accessed within that block, because we declared them in a global scope.

Think of scope as perspective. From the perspective of the outside, we can’t always see what is inside someone’s house. But from the inside, we can see everything that’s outside.

We shouldn’t be able to look inside an if/else statement and see its local variables. Local variables are variables that are declared within a block.
pro tip: any code within curly braces form a block.

if(3==3){
 var number = 3;
}

Notice the assignment operator. In this example, I’ve declared and initialized my variable at the same time. The equals sign in this case is not the same as the equal sign you use in math. It simply means that you want to assign particular data to a variable you made up. The operator used is called an assignment operator.

Alright. Remember what I mentioned about global and local variables. You’re probably guessing that if I were to use this variable outside of the block, we should get an error.

if(3==3){
 var number = 3;
}

console.log(number);

Wait…we were still able to access the variable outside of the block. Did we just acquire X-Ray vision? So all this talk about local and global variables must be a lie then, right?

Well, the problem with the var keyword is that it loves to expose itself in public. Even if it’s defined within a block, it’ll still want to be seen by everyone. The only thing that can tame it is a function.

function test(){
  var number = 3;
}
console.log(3);

We will get into functions another time, but all you need to know for now is that functions create their own scope. They’re like highly secured mansions.
That’s all fine and dandy that functions are so secure, but how do I secure an if/else statement?

There is a new way to declare variables as of Es6. Every so often Ecma International comes up with new ways for us to code in JavaScript. What they’ve come up with to solve this issue is the let keyword.

Let’s use it!

if(3==3){
 let number = 3;
}
console.log(number);

Great. Now we truly have global and local variables.

Going back to our original variable declarations, var triangleArea, poppinsQoute;, you can see that we are able to declare multiple variables at the same time by separating them with a comma. Also, look at how the second word in the variable name starts off with a capitalized letter. This convention is called camel case. It’s good to stick to this convention so that your code is legible to you and to others that might look at your code one day.

The Variable Warehouse

We’ve messed around with variables a little, but we haven’t pushed them to the limit. Let’s see what we can put inside of a variable.

numerical statement

triangleArea = 1/2(60 * 120);

strings

poppinsQoute = "superkalafragilisticespialadocious";

boolean

let true_ = true;

Wait. Why the underscore? See, you can’t name a variable anything that is already named by those who’ve designed the language. Just make sure that you don’t start naming your variables with numbers: 123true.

logical statement

let check = (2==2&&3==3&&4==4);

The parenthesis is there for readability. You can plug this right into your if statement and it’ll work beautifully.

if(check){
 console.log("true");
}

Pro tip: I did not have to type check === true because the if statement automatically checks for true or false.

functions

var myFunction = function(){
  return 'hello';
}

variables also consume functions. These functions are called anonymous functions because they aren’t named.

arrays

var myArray = [1,3,4,5];

Arrays are a collection of data.

objects

var myObject = {me: "too", save: "me"};

Objects also hold a collection of data.

Other variables.

var newVariable = oldVariable;

Multiple variables!

var varOne = varTwo = varThree = 1;

Don’t try this one at home, because it has unwanted side effects. Variable assignment works from right to left. So in order for varOne to finally receive value, the other two variables are pushed to the global scope automatically. This means even functions won’t recognize varTwo and varThree as local variables. This is called leaking and is a pretty big no,no.

Closing Note

Variables are here to stay so make sure you get into the habit of using them. Whenever you find yourself using the same data type repeatedly, try sticking it into a variable. You’ll be happy you did.

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