Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 340 pages
- Published by: John Wiley & Sons
- Edition: 1st Edition March 9, 1998
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471242748
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471242741
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Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
From Library Journal
Ford's book is aimed at folks who want to add interactivity to web sites with JavaScript. The first half of the book consists of three chapters: obtaining information from users, processing information to add value, and communicating results. Providing good reference value, Ford uses a structure of a desired "action" followed by "how-to-do-it" instructions. His general actions, for which most people will have some use, include prompting the reader for information and using a text box. The second half of the book discusses problem-solving, storing knowledge, pattern matching, game playing, dynamic HTML, and JavaScript. This is an great book for beginners, who can advance into very complex design considerations in the later chapters.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
A quick, easy guide to building cutting-edge intelligence into your website
Without "smart," interactive content, your website just will not cut it with today's savvy Web surfers. Fortunately, with JavaScript, it's now incredibly easy to build intelligent sites, and this book shows you how.
Featuring a rapid skill-building format, this book is organized around goals you want to accomplish with JavaScript rather than the language's technical aspects. Even if you've never programmed a line of code in your life, you'll quickly learn how to enliven your site with the smarts it requirements to automatically tailor its content to an individual user's needs, solve problems, make decisions, create new pages on the fly, and even close sales!
Nigel Ford eases you into the basics of JavaScript and then, with the help of dozens of vivid examples, teaches you:
* Basic and advanced techniques for adding intelligence to your Web pages
* How to store different types of knowledge in your Web pages
* Techniques for handling requests, accessing files, and using databases in server-side JavaScript
* Programming for language processing, searching, problem solving, and game playing
* How to program for both the client side and server side with JavaScript.
Reader ReviewsVery good book as in introduction to JavaScript. Clear and concise descriptions and examples, that actually work! This isn't a good book for the experienced programmer looking for a desk reference (though it's not too bad in that regards), but is a great book for someone wanting to get started with JavaScript.
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