Explore JavaScript Programming Concepts

Introduction

In this lab, we will explore and practice JavaScript programming concepts and techniques. The lab is designed to provide hands-on experience in solving programming challenges and exercises, ranging from basic syntax and data types to more advanced topics such as functions, arrays, and object-oriented programming. By the end of the lab, you will have improved your JavaScript skills and be better equipped to tackle real-world programming tasks.

Skills Graph

Checking if Date is a Weekend

To check if a given date is a weekend, follow these steps:

• Open the Terminal/SSH and type node to start practicing coding.
• Use Date.prototype.getDay() method to get the day of the week as a number (0-6), with Sunday being 0 and Saturday being 6.
• Check if the day is a weekend by using a modulo operator (%) and comparing it to 0 or 6.
• Omit the argument, d, to use the current date as default.

Here's an example code snippet that you can use:

const isWeekend = (d = new Date()) => d.getDay() % 6 === 0;

To test the function, simply call it without any argument:

isWeekend(); // true or false (depending on the current date)

This will return true if the current date is a weekend (Saturday or Sunday) and false otherwise.

Summary

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