Beginning JavaScript - Softcover

Wilton, Paul; McPeak, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470525932 ISBN 13: 9780470525937

Publisher: Wrox, 2009

Synopsis

The perennial bestseller returns with new details for using the latest tools and techniques available with JavaScript

JavaScript is the definitive language for making the Web a dynamic, rich, interactive medium. This guide to JavaScript builds on the success of previous editions and introduces you to many new advances in JavaScript development. The reorganization of the chapters helps streamline your learning process while new examples provide you with updated JavaScript programming techniques.

You'll get all-new coverage of Ajax for remote scripting, JavaScript frameworks, JavaScript and XML, and the latest features in modern Web browsers. Plus, all the featured code has been updated to ensure compliance with the most recent popular Web browsers.

• Introduces you to the latest capabilities of JavaScript, the definitive language for developing dynamic, rich, interactive Web sites
• Features new coverage of data types and variables, JavaScript and XML, Ajax for remote scripting, and popular JavaScript frameworks
• Offers updated code that ensures compliance with the most popular Web browsers
• Includes improved examples on the most up-to-date JavaScript programming techniques

Continuing in the superlative tradition of the first three editions, Beginning JavaScript, Fourth Edition, gets you up to speed on all the new advances in JavaScript development.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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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Edition details

• Publisher: Wrox
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470525932
• ISBN 13: 9780470525937
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 792