Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 512 pages
- Published by: Peachpit Press
- Edition: 6th Edition September 7, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0321430328
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321430328
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 7 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Book Description
Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with JavaScript in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to JavaScript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's JavaScript essentials. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
- Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through JavaScript and show you what to do.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!
About The Author
Tom Negrino is the author of dozens of books including
Visual QuickStart Guides covering Macromedia Contribute and Keynote, and
Visual QuickProject Guides on upgrading to Mac OS X Tiger, Keynote, and PowerPoint.
Dori Smith is the author of
Java for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, publisher of the Wise-Women’s Web community, and a member of the Web Standards Project. Together they’ve written the best-selling
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, authored numerous print and online articles, and maintain the Backup Brain weblog.
Reader Reviews
This is the sixth editing of the Visual QuickStart Guide to this book and it is the best so far. It finally focuses on some of the WSC standard DOM practices that all the other new JavaScript books have been showing the past year. It also has some a great chapter on one of the most popular JavaScript library/toolkits: Yahoo! UI. This library by Yahoo! has tons of ways to help you create quickly a JavaScript and/or Ajax widget/application for your own site. This book is a great beginner book for people trying to get into coding or programming since all you need is a web browser and no fancy compiler or other costly program. The book goes though the basics of JavaScript with creating variables and where to put your scripts. The author shows you some simple examples to get you started. It then focuses on more language basics such as loops, if statements, creating custom functions, and arrays. It gives a simple examples for each topic and then builds a small application with each new topic covered to show the reader how they all can be put together. I really like how the author does this because it shows the reader what can be done with JavaScript instead of just explaining each topic and moving on. The book then covers manipulating images with JavaScript since doing image-rollovers is what got JavaScript noticed years ago. Then the bigger chapters focus on handling forms which the other big use of JavaScript for years. Being able to manipulate data in forms as well as validate that data is crucial for understanding some of the power of JavaScript. The book also has a good section in Chapter 8, with forms and regular expressions. Using regular expressions can be very tricky but he book gives some good examples on how to use them with some of the built-in JavaScript objects (string) to validate specific patterns of form data (ie. email address). Towards the end of the book (chapter 9 and 10), the author covers basic event handling (onload, onmouseover, onmouseout, onfocus, onblur, onkeypress, etc) and creating and editing cookies. These two topics have been around for years in JavaScript, but are an important topic(s) if you want to learn additional JavaScript topics. The rest of the book covers most of the new additions for this 6th version: DOM, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), Ajax, Ajax toolkits (Yahoo! UI), Bookmarlets (small scripts stored in browser favorites - IE7 may not work because of updated security). Each topic is covered in enough detail to give the reader a good basics understanding of some of the more advanced topics that are used today. After this book, you can progress to more JavaScript books focusing on DOM or JavaScript Libraries or Ajax. This is a great first book on JavaScript for someone new to programming or coding. Whether you're a graphic designer or just a internet newbie wanted to get started.
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