Chapter 7: Stringing Characters Together

Learning Objectives

Understand strings, like arrays, are indexed collections
Index into a string using bracket notation
Describe what it means for strings to be immutable
Find the length of a string using the .length method
Create strings with special characters: \n, \t, unicode (e.g. ‘\u03a9’)
Include quotes with strings by escaping them
Use template literals to create strings that rely on variable values
Use common string methods: indexOf, charAt, toLowerCase, toUpperCase, trim, replace, slice
Understand how ASCII allows characters to be represented as numbers
Convert characters from string to ASCII codes and back using charCodeAt and String.fromCharCode