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2_Data Types

Chapter 2 discusses primitive data types in JavaScript, including Number, Boolean, String, and special types like Undefined, null, and NaN. It highlights JavaScript's dynamic typing and type coercion, demonstrating how strings can be converted to numbers during comparisons. The chapter also provides examples of using different types of quotes for strings and template literals for string interpolation.

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2_Data Types

Chapter 2 discusses primitive data types in JavaScript, including Number, Boolean, String, and special types like Undefined, null, and NaN. It highlights JavaScript's dynamic typing and type coercion, demonstrating how strings can be converted to numbers during comparisons. The chapter also provides examples of using different types of quotes for strings and template literals for string interpolation.

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Chapter 2

Data Types
Primitive Data Types

• Character (blood=“A”)
• Number (num1=100, price=35.5)
• Boolean
• String (name= “aye aye”)

Primitive Data Types for JS


• Number
• Boolean
• String
JS does not have Character data type.
Number does not have integer and float. It has 64-bit float.
JS is Dynamic type language.
Type Juggling

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Type coercion
"ABC" > 123

No Error. Convert ABC to number. The value is zero. Zero is not greater than 123. So , the result
is false.
String
Single Quote, Double Quote and Back tick
let blood = "A" (using double quote)
let greet = 'Hello' (using single quote)

let time = "3 O' Clock" (no error)

let time = '3 O' Clock' (error)

let time = '3 O\' Clock' (no error with using Backslash)

let name = "Bob"


let greet = `Hello Alice` (using back tick)

Template String using back tick


let name = "Bob"
let greet = `Hello ${name}`

let name = "Bob"


let age = 22
let greet = `
Hello ${name},
you are ${age} years old.

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Special Data Types
• Undefined
• null
• NaN

Undefined Variable
let myvar

null Variable

let myvar = null

NaN (Not a Number)


let num1
let num2 = 1
num1 + num2
num1→undefined
num2→number
num1+num2→NaN (undefined is not converted to number)

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Exercises

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>JavaScript Numbers</h2>
<p>Numbers can be written with, or without decimals:</p>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
let x1 = 34.00;
let x2 = 34;
let x3 = 3.14;
document.write(x1 + "<br>" + x2 + "<br>" + x3)
</script>
</body>
</html>

<html>
<body>
<h2>JavaScript Strings</h2>
<p>You can use quotes inside a string, as long as they don't match the quotes
surrounding the string:</p>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
let answer1 = "It's alright";
let answer2 = "He is called 'Johnny'";
let answer3 = 'He is called "Johnny"';
document.write( answer1 + "<br>" + answer2 + "<br>" + answer3)
</script>

</body>
</html>

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