Wiley, 2014. — 640 p. — ISBN10: 1118531647, ISBN13: 978-1118531648.
Language: English
Author: Jon Duckett
Extra material: Gilles Ruppert & Jack Moore
Design: Emme Stone & Jon Duckett
Photography: John Stewardson
Cover: Emme Stone
This book was written for anyone who wants to use JavaScript to make their websites a little more interesting, engaging, interactive, or usable. In particular, it is aimed at people who do not have a degree in computer science (well, not yet anyway).
Programming books can be intimidating, so we wanted to create a book that taught readers how to use JavaScript in a gentler, more visual way. And importantly, we did not want to assume that the reader had any experience of programming beyond the ability to create a web page in HTML and CSS. (After all, many kinds of people are creating websites these days, and not all of us come from a programming background.)
So, if you have ever struggled to get a script working on your web pages, want a better idea of how to customize scripts, or want to write your scripts from scratch, this book was written for you.
We can't promise to remove the unfamiliar terms that programmers use, but we do tell you what they mean (with the aid of visual examples and diagrams) so that JavaScript won't seem like a foreign language any more.
The ABC of Programming.
Basic JavaScript Instructions.
Functions, Methods, & Objects.
Decisions & Loops.
Document Object Model.
Events.
jQuery.
Ajax & JSON.
APIs.
Error Handling & Debugging.
Content Panels.
Filtering and Sorting.
Form Enhancement & Validation.