1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:03,770 Now before continuing to learn JavaScript, 2 00:00:03,770 --> 00:00:05,290 in this new section, 3 00:00:05,290 --> 00:00:08,610 we should first activate a special mode in JavaScript, 4 00:00:08,610 --> 00:00:10,223 called Strict Mode. 5 00:00:12,090 --> 00:00:15,200 And here on my desktop I already have the folder, 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,160 for this part 2 fundamental section. 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,380 And for you as I explained before, 8 00:00:20,380 --> 00:00:23,725 these starred files come from the get up repertory 9 00:00:23,725 --> 00:00:26,390 that I showed you at the beginning of the course. 10 00:00:26,390 --> 00:00:30,370 So use that get up reparatory as your starter folder 11 00:00:30,370 --> 00:00:32,740 or ofcourse you can just copy that data 12 00:00:32,740 --> 00:00:35,730 somewhere else to your computer and work from there, 13 00:00:35,730 --> 00:00:36,923 whatever works for you. 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,340 Now I'm creating here in UVS code window 15 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,690 and lets open this new folder. 16 00:00:49,690 --> 00:00:51,910 So that's our new working folder 17 00:00:51,910 --> 00:00:55,870 and this time we already have the script file here 18 00:00:55,870 --> 00:00:58,860 and in the HDML file, 19 00:00:58,860 --> 00:01:02,300 we see that the script is also already linked, 20 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:05,290 so we don't have to do that this time. 21 00:01:05,290 --> 00:01:08,653 At this point I assume that you already know how to do that. 22 00:01:10,150 --> 00:01:12,290 So closing the side bar here 23 00:01:12,290 --> 00:01:15,810 and lets now get started in this new section. 24 00:01:15,810 --> 00:01:19,470 And as I said lets start with strict mode. 25 00:01:19,470 --> 00:01:21,403 So strict mode is a special mode 26 00:01:21,403 --> 00:01:24,090 that we can activate in JavaScript, 27 00:01:24,090 --> 00:01:25,750 which makes it easier for us 28 00:01:25,750 --> 00:01:28,820 to write a secure JavaScript code. 29 00:01:28,820 --> 00:01:31,630 And all we have to do to activate strict mode 30 00:01:31,630 --> 00:01:35,550 is to write this ring at the beginning of the script 31 00:01:35,550 --> 00:01:40,260 so use strict and that's it. 32 00:01:40,260 --> 00:01:42,540 So with this, we activated strict mode 33 00:01:42,540 --> 00:01:44,520 for the entire script. 34 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,640 Now what's important is that this line of code, 35 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,570 so this statement here basically 36 00:01:49,570 --> 00:01:53,050 has to be the very first statement in the script. 37 00:01:53,050 --> 00:01:55,341 So if we have any code before this 38 00:01:55,341 --> 00:01:58,290 then strict mode will not be activated. 39 00:01:58,290 --> 00:02:00,690 Comments are allowed because JavaScript 40 00:02:00,690 --> 00:02:03,720 will just ignore them but no code. 41 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,670 Okay, now we actually can also activate strict mode, 42 00:02:07,670 --> 00:02:11,490 only for a specific function or a specific block. 43 00:02:11,490 --> 00:02:14,240 But I don't really see the point in doing that 44 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,430 and so I always just use it at the beginning of each script 45 00:02:18,430 --> 00:02:21,070 and so I believe that you should do the same. 46 00:02:21,070 --> 00:02:22,910 So always just put strict mode 47 00:02:22,910 --> 00:02:24,860 in the beginning of your scripts 48 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:28,350 and like that write more secure code. 49 00:02:28,350 --> 00:02:30,940 And when secure, I mean that strict mode 50 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:33,170 makes it easier for us developers 51 00:02:33,170 --> 00:02:35,350 to avoid accidental errors. 52 00:02:35,350 --> 00:02:39,790 So basically it helps us introduce the bugs into our code 53 00:02:39,790 --> 00:02:42,080 and that's because of 2 reasons. 54 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,790 First, strict mode forbids us to do certain things 55 00:02:45,790 --> 00:02:49,110 and second, it will actually create visible errors for us 56 00:02:49,110 --> 00:02:52,730 in certain situations in which without strict mode 57 00:02:52,730 --> 00:02:55,730 JavaScript will simply fail silently 58 00:02:55,730 --> 00:02:58,870 without letting us know that we did a mistake. 59 00:02:58,870 --> 00:02:59,760 Okay. 60 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,220 So again, first strict mode forbids us to do certain things 61 00:03:04,220 --> 00:03:06,670 and second it creates visible errors 62 00:03:06,670 --> 00:03:09,920 and the developer console, where in other situations 63 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:13,060 JavaScript would just fail silently. 64 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:15,830 Okay, but now to make this a bit more clear, 65 00:03:15,830 --> 00:03:18,260 Lets actually see an example of 66 00:03:18,260 --> 00:03:20,370 one of the most important changes 67 00:03:20,370 --> 00:03:22,123 that strict mode introduces. 68 00:03:23,010 --> 00:03:25,030 So lets create a variable here 69 00:03:25,030 --> 00:03:28,890 with a complicated name lets say hasDriverslicense 70 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,740 and lets initialize it as false here. 71 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:41,740 And then I'll also create, pass test and set that to true. 72 00:03:44,300 --> 00:03:46,250 And I'm using let in both of them 73 00:03:46,250 --> 00:03:48,470 because I want to change them later 74 00:03:48,470 --> 00:03:50,800 and actually this one not. 75 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,540 So lets just use a const here, 76 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:56,020 because remember by default we should always const 77 00:03:56,020 --> 00:03:58,300 to avoid accidental errors. 78 00:03:58,300 --> 00:04:00,490 So basically there is a certain person 79 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:04,150 which right now does not have a drivers license 80 00:04:04,150 --> 00:04:06,340 but they just passed a test, 81 00:04:06,340 --> 00:04:09,513 that's why we have passed test set to true. 82 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:12,760 And now we want to write some logic 83 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,110 so that when they pass the test 84 00:04:15,110 --> 00:04:18,550 this variable here gets set to true. 85 00:04:18,550 --> 00:04:21,707 So, we can say if passTest, right? 86 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,040 Because this one here is a boolean value 87 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,610 and so this condition will be either true or false. 88 00:04:30,610 --> 00:04:34,930 And then lets introduce a simple bug here, okay? 89 00:04:34,930 --> 00:04:37,950 So this is a kind of hard to write variable name 90 00:04:37,950 --> 00:04:41,343 and so lets pretend that we are writing it wrong here. 91 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:47,500 So hasDriversLicense equal to true. 92 00:04:49,670 --> 00:04:53,820 So what I did here was to basically omit the 's' 93 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:57,270 So this letter here is not in this variable 94 00:04:57,270 --> 00:04:59,820 that am trying to change here to true. 95 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:03,510 And again that is an error I'm making here on purpose, 96 00:05:03,510 --> 00:05:06,110 just to show you how strict mode can help us 97 00:05:06,110 --> 00:05:07,950 avoid a certain kind of error, 98 00:05:07,950 --> 00:05:10,500 because doing this is actually more common 99 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,050 than you might think, okay? 100 00:05:13,050 --> 00:05:15,810 And now lets lock something to the console 101 00:05:15,810 --> 00:05:18,710 if the person has the drivers license. 102 00:05:18,710 --> 00:05:20,570 And so now were actually gonna go back 103 00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:22,570 to writing it correctly. 104 00:05:22,570 --> 00:05:26,790 So if hasDriversLicense and so you see that now 105 00:05:28,970 --> 00:05:31,230 this one is exactly the same, 106 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:33,013 as VS code highlights both. 107 00:05:34,530 --> 00:05:39,530 So if hasDriversLicense then log to the console, 108 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,680 I can drive. 109 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,360 And now lets actually start 110 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,860 by deactivating strict mode again, 111 00:05:48,860 --> 00:05:52,573 just so we see how this bug could affect our code. 112 00:05:53,590 --> 00:05:56,610 So I'm giving it a save and then lets go 113 00:05:58,510 --> 00:06:01,713 and open this index.hdml file. 114 00:06:04,140 --> 00:06:05,770 Okay? 115 00:06:05,770 --> 00:06:09,030 Now lets open up to console here 116 00:06:09,030 --> 00:06:11,130 and again I'm gonna increase the text 117 00:06:11,130 --> 00:06:15,393 by hitting command plus a couple of times here. 118 00:06:16,350 --> 00:06:17,530 Okay? 119 00:06:17,530 --> 00:06:19,470 So lets reload here just to make sure 120 00:06:19,470 --> 00:06:21,920 that everything is working 121 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,090 and now what we see is that it didn't log I can drive 122 00:06:26,090 --> 00:06:27,340 to the console. 123 00:06:27,340 --> 00:06:29,310 Even though we had attempted to set 124 00:06:29,310 --> 00:06:32,160 hasDriversLicense to true here, 125 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,530 so we expected that drivers license being true 126 00:06:35,530 --> 00:06:38,260 should then log I can drive. 127 00:06:38,260 --> 00:06:40,930 But it didn't work and that's because of the mistake 128 00:06:40,930 --> 00:06:43,101 that I just introduced here on purpose 129 00:06:43,101 --> 00:06:45,270 forgetting this 's' 130 00:06:45,270 --> 00:06:48,910 so without the error it should work, right? 131 00:06:48,910 --> 00:06:51,313 But without it, its not gonna work. 132 00:06:52,540 --> 00:06:54,560 And again because basically here 133 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,840 I set a new variable to true 134 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:58,460 and not the original one, 135 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:00,260 so this one is still false 136 00:07:00,260 --> 00:07:03,660 and that's why here, this logging does not happen. 137 00:07:03,660 --> 00:07:05,640 So now our program has a bug 138 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,660 which means that it has a mistake 139 00:07:07,660 --> 00:07:11,010 and we would now go ahead and find that bug. 140 00:07:11,010 --> 00:07:14,050 But, strict mode can actually help us with this. 141 00:07:14,050 --> 00:07:15,573 So lets turn it back on, 142 00:07:17,020 --> 00:07:19,780 give it a save, now try it again. 143 00:07:19,780 --> 00:07:22,230 And now we actually get an error. 144 00:07:22,230 --> 00:07:26,760 So here we see that hasDriversLicense is not defined, 145 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,200 so in line number 6 which is right here 146 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,440 and so this error message now tells us 147 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,330 exactly what is wrong. 148 00:07:34,330 --> 00:07:37,200 So it tells us that this variable is not defined 149 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,410 and then we can see, oh we did a mistake here, 150 00:07:40,410 --> 00:07:41,827 we're missing the 's', 151 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:45,100 right, so now its the same variable, 152 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:48,470 here, here and here, okay? 153 00:07:48,470 --> 00:07:51,760 And so if we try that now again. 154 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,490 then the error is gone. 155 00:07:53,490 --> 00:07:57,660 And so strict mode really helped us avoid this kind of bug 156 00:07:57,660 --> 00:07:59,330 that we created here. 157 00:07:59,330 --> 00:08:01,340 You can experiment a little bit with this 158 00:08:01,340 --> 00:08:03,640 to make it really clear. 159 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,330 Now another thing that strict mode does 160 00:08:06,330 --> 00:08:09,600 is to introduce a short list of variable names 161 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,700 that are reserved for features 162 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,453 that might be added to the language a bit later. 163 00:08:16,590 --> 00:08:20,573 For example, lets try to define a variable called interface, 164 00:08:25,630 --> 00:08:27,720 for example, for an audio interface 165 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,023 and now if we try this. 166 00:08:30,110 --> 00:08:33,630 Then we see that, we get an unexpected strict mode 167 00:08:33,630 --> 00:08:37,210 reserved word, error message basically 168 00:08:37,210 --> 00:08:39,700 and that is again because JavaScript 169 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:42,810 is reserving this word here for a feature 170 00:08:42,810 --> 00:08:45,470 that it might implement in the future. 171 00:08:45,470 --> 00:08:47,940 And so by reserving these kind of words 172 00:08:47,940 --> 00:08:49,640 it will then make it easier 173 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,530 to implement the feature in the future. 174 00:08:53,530 --> 00:08:57,140 So another one is private for example, 175 00:08:57,140 --> 00:09:02,117 so const private, just some number here 176 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,363 and so this one will also not work. 177 00:09:06,370 --> 00:09:07,881 And that's because in the future 178 00:09:07,881 --> 00:09:12,640 there might be something called a private field and classes 179 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,030 or in some other places even in the language 180 00:09:15,030 --> 00:09:18,290 and they might want to use this word for that. 181 00:09:18,290 --> 00:09:20,940 And so strict mode reserves these words 182 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:23,746 so we cannot use them for variables. 183 00:09:23,746 --> 00:09:27,630 It's the same logic as this one 184 00:09:27,630 --> 00:09:29,840 so we cannot call a variable 'if'. 185 00:09:32,030 --> 00:09:32,863 Right? 186 00:09:32,863 --> 00:09:35,503 And that's because there's already an if statement. 187 00:09:37,170 --> 00:09:39,710 So here we get an unexpected token 'if' 188 00:09:39,710 --> 00:09:40,980 so that's like the rules 189 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:42,370 that I explained to you in the beginning 190 00:09:42,370 --> 00:09:43,853 about naming variables. 191 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,480 Okay? Alright. 192 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,300 Now there are actually a lot of other changes 193 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:53,740 that affect things that we haven't learned about yet. 194 00:09:53,740 --> 00:09:57,460 So, that's stuff like functions, objects, 195 00:09:57,460 --> 00:10:01,360 setting properties on primitive values and many more. 196 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,760 And I will mention them in future lectures 197 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,380 when the time comes. 198 00:10:05,380 --> 00:10:07,080 But everything that I'm gonna say 199 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,400 in the rest of the course from now on 200 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,260 we'll always assume that you have strict mode turned on. 201 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:16,000 And so I will add this line of code here 202 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,910 to all the scripts in the future 203 00:10:17,910 --> 00:10:19,965 and so you should do the same. 204 00:10:19,965 --> 00:10:22,500 Anyway with this out of the way 205 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:24,623 lets now start learning functions.