Learning Dart

Content: Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Authors
 About the Reviewers
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Dart --
A Modern Web Programming Language
 What is Dart?
 Dart is a perfect fit for HTML5
 A very short history of web programming
 Dart empowers the web client
 JavaScript is not the way to go for complex apps
 Google, GWT, and Dart
 Advantages of Dart
 Getting started with Dart
 Installing the Dart Editor
 Your first Dart program
 Getting a view on the Dart tool chain
 The Dart execution model
 A bird\'s eye view on Dart
 Example 1 --
raising rabbits. Extracting a functionA web version
 Example 2 --
banking
 Making a todo list with Dart
 Summary
 Chapter 2: Getting to Work with Dart
 Variables --
to type or not to type
 Built-in types and their methods
 Conversions
 Operators
 Some useful String methods
 Dates and times
 Lists
 Maps
 Documenting your programs
 Changing the execution flow of a program
 Using functions in Dart
 Return types
 Parameters
 First class functions
 Recognizing and catching errors and exceptions
 Debugging exercise
 Summary
 Chapter 3: Structuring Code with Classes and Libraries. A touch of class --
how to use classes and objectsVisibility --
getters and setters
 Types of constructors
 Named constructors
 factory constructors
 const constructors
 Inheritance
 Abstract classes and methods
 The interface of a class --
implementing interfaces
 Polymorphism and the dynamic nature of Dart
 Collection types and generics
 Typing collections and generics
 The collection hierarchy and its functional nature
 Structuring your code using libraries
 Using a library in an app
 Resolving name conflicts
 Visibility of objects outside a library
 Managing library dependencies with pub. Unit testing in DartProject --
word frequency
 Summary
 Chapter 4: Modeling Web Applications with Model Concepts and Dartlero
 A short introduction to Git and GitHub
 Creating a repository on GitHub and a local version
 Collaborating on a GitHub project
 What a model is and why we need it in programming
 Model concepts --
a graphical design tool for our models
 Working with model concepts
 Explaining the model
 Drawing the model
 Exporting the model
 What is JSON?
 Dartlero --
a simple domain model framework
 An example of using Dartlero
 The categories and links application
 Summary. Chapter 5: Handling the DOM in a New WayFinding elements and changing their attributes
 Finding elements
 Changing the attributes of elements
 Creating and removing elements
 Handling events
 Manipulating the style of page elements
 Animating a game
 Ping Pong using style(s)
 How to draw on a canvas --
Ping Pong revisited
 Spiral 1 --
drawing a circle and a rectangle
 Spiral 2 --
colored circles and rectangles
 Spiral 3 --
moving a ball
 Spiral 4 --
reorganizing the code
 Spiral 5 --
a bouncing ball
 Spiral 6 --
displaying the racket
 Spiral 7 --
moving the racket using keys. Spiral 8 --
moving the racket using the mouse.