Beginning JavaScript

Step–by–step guidance to creating powerful web apps with JavaScript
JavaScript allows you to enhance your web pages and web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. Serving as a great introduction to JavaScript, this book offers all you need to start using JavaScript on your web pages right away. It′s fully updated and covers utilizing JavaScript with the latest versions of the Internet Explorer®, Firefox®, and Safari® browsers.
Walks you through the basics of JavaScript: what it is, how it works, and what you can do with it
Covers the various tools needed to create JavaScript web applications
Escorts you through selecting a single character from a string, converting character codes to a string, and copying string parts
Shows you how to join arrays, copy parts of an array, sort arrays, and reverse an array′s order
Explains how using a JavaScript framework (such as jQuery, Prototype, and MooTools) makes JavaScript programming faster and more efficient
Offers an in–depth look at Ajax
Reviews common mistakes, debugging, and error handling
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Spis treści:
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Introduction to JavaScript and the Web.
Chapter 2: Data Types and Variables.
Chapter 3: Decisions, Loops, and Functions.
Chapter 4: Common Mistakes, Debugging, and Error Handling.
Chapter 5: JavaScript — An Object–Based Language.
Chapter 6: Programming the Browser.
Chapter 7: HTML Forms: Interacting with the User.
Chapter 8: Windows and Frames.
Chapter 9: String Manipulation.
Chapter 10: Date, Time, and Timers.
Chapter 11: Storing Information: Cookies.
Chapter 12: Dynamic HTML and the W3C Document Object Model.
Chapter 13: Using ActiveX and Plug–Ins with JavaScript.
Chapter 14: Ajax.
Chapter 15: JavaScript Frameworks.
Appendix A: Answers to Exercises.
Appendix B: JavaScript Core Reference.
Appendix C: W3C DOM Reference.
Appendix D: Latin–1 Character Set.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Paul Wilton owns his own company, providing online booking systems to vacation property owners, which is largely developed using JavaScript.
Jeremy McPeak is a self–taught programmer who began his career by tinkering with web sites in 1998. He is the coauthor of Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition and several online articles covering topics such as XSLT, ASP.NET Web Forms, and C#. He is currently employed at an energy–based company building in–house conventional and web applications.

Okładka tylna:
Step–by–step guidance to creating powerful web apps with JavaScript
JavaScript allows you to enhance your web pages and web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. Serving as a great introduction to JavaScript, this book offers all you need to start using JavaScript on your web pages right away. It′s fully updated and covers utilizing JavaScript with the latest versions of the Internet Explorer®, Fire fox®, and Safari® browsers.
Walks you through the basics of JavaScript: what it is, how it works, and what you can do with it
Covers the various tools needed to create JavaScript web applications
Escorts you through selecting a single character from a string, converting character codes to a string, and copying string parts
Shows you how to join arrays, copy parts of an array, sort arrays, and reverse an array′s order
Explains how using a JavaScript framework (such as jQuery, Prototype, and MooTools) makes JavaScript programming faster and more efficient
Offers an in–depth look at Ajax
Reviews common mistakes, debugging, and error handling
Programmer Forums
Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.
Code Downloads
Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.
Read More
Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
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