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Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
🚀 Automatically Convert PDFs to Text Files Using Google Apps Script (With OCR Support!) Working with PDFs is painful. They’re great for sharing, but not so great when you actually need the text inside them. Manually copying and pasting from dozens—or hundreds—of PDFs is slow, error-prone, and exhausting. So today, I’m sharing a practical automation … Read more
🚀 Learn to Code — The Secret Skill Most Beginner Developers Skip: Thinking Like a Debugger Every developer writes code.Great developers debug code well. Today’s issue focuses on a skill that dramatically improves your coding speed, confidence, and results — debugging as a mindset, not just a reaction when things break. Debugging isn’t punishment.It’s a … Read more
🟦 JavaScript Deep Dive – Issue #1 The Strange Parts of JavaScript: Why the Language Behaves Like That Welcome to the first issue of the JavaScript Deep Dive newsletter — a series for developers who want to go beyond tutorials and explore the deeper mechanics that make JavaScript powerful, weird, and endlessly fascinating. Today we’re … Read more
Github https://github.com/lsvekis/10-JavaScript-DOM-Coding-Games-Learn-by-Building-Fun-Mini-Projects 🕹️ Exercise 11 – Moving Target Goal: click a moving dot as many times as you can in 15 seconds. How it works: Concepts practiced: timed animation loops, random positioning, updating DOM text. Learning outcome: working with layout geometry (offsetWidth, getBoundingClientRect()), intervals, and event listeners. 🎯 Exercise 12 – Number Guess (1–100) Goal: … Read more
This set of exercises continues your journey through JavaScript, covering more advanced concepts and practical problem-solving techniques. Keep practicing and experimenting! Section 4: Intermediate to Advanced Concepts (Exercises 31-40) Exercise 31: Error Handling with try…catch Exercise 32: Understanding this Keyword Context Exercise 33: Arrow Functions (=>) Exercise 34: Object Destructuring Exercise 35: Array Destructuring Exercise … Read more
These exercises are designed to help you practice and solidify your understanding of fundamental to intermediate JavaScript concepts. Work through them step by step, and don’t hesitate to experiment with the code! Section 1: Fundamentals (Exercises 1-10) Exercise 1: Declare and Assign Variables Exercise 2: Basic Arithmetic Operations Exercise 3: String Concatenation Exercise 4: Conditional … Read more
If you’ve ever copied and pasted content into a Google Doc, you know the pain: Over time, your documents can become cluttered and hard to manage. But what if you could automate the cleanup process in a single click? With Google Apps Script, you can! Below, I’ll share a script that cleans up your Google … Read more
JavaScript is a versatile language with many nuances and advanced features. In this post, you’ll find 50 new questions covering topics from global objects and module loaders to service workers and job queues. Each entry includes a clear explanation and practical code examples. 1. What is the difference between the global object in a browser … Read more
JavaScript has evolved dramatically over the years. Beyond the basics lie powerful, nuanced topics that are essential for developing efficient, scalable, and robust applications. In this post, we explore 25 advanced JavaScript coding questions, each accompanied by an in-depth explanation and code examples to illustrate key concepts. 1. How Does the JavaScript Event Loop Handle … Read more
A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section is an essential part of any website, helping users find answers quickly without needing to contact support. An accordion-style FAQ section enhances user experience by displaying only the relevant answers when clicked, keeping the interface clean and organized. In this blog post, we’ll build a simple Accordion FAQ Section … Read more