Javascript & JQuery (English, Undefined, Mcfarland David Sawyer)
Javascript & JQuery (English, Undefined, Mcfarland David Sawyer)
- Language: English
- Binding: Undefined
- Publisher: Packt
- Genre: Computers
- ISBN: 9789350235621, 9789350235621
- Pages: 560
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JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual is a comprehensive reference book for web developers who wish to enhance their skills on the subject.
Summary Of The Book
Written in an easy to understand language, JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual aims to reach a vast audience and has been written by an experienced web developer, David Sawyer McFarland. The author deliberately avoids using jargon in this book to ensure its accessibility to all. JavaScript has the capability to supercharge HTML with visual effects, interactivity and animation. Though every web developer is aware of the benefits of using JavaScript, they usually find it a difficult language. Here comes the role of McFarland’s JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual. It explores the fundamental concepts of JavaScript and teaches readers how to use the jQuery library of pre-written JavaScript code to save time and effort.
JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual is categorized into fifteen chapters which are further divided into different sections. The topics covered here are writing the first JavaScript Program, grammar of JavaScript, adding logic and control to programs, introduction to jQuery, adding events to make the page come alive, animations and effects, improving images and navigation, using Ajax, Flickr and Google Maps, making the most from jQuery, and advanced level in JavaScript. The last chapter is completely dedicated to troubleshooting and debugging. The book mainly aims to provide skills to add interactivity to a web page. It enables one to come up with JavaScript events that can react to visitor actions. It offers tools to add animations and effects, build pop-ups, drop down navigation menus, automated slideshows and many such user friendly properties to a web page. It further provides information on how to improve the user interface by describing how experts create their websites in a fun manner.
JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual digs deep into the subject to impart crucial knowledge on how to make web pages that act like desktop programs and do not require much programming. The reader learns how to collect data with web forms and ensure accurate visitor response by creating easy-to-use forms. Also, one gets to learn the technique to add a dash of Ajax so that a web page can communicate with a web server without reloading the page. One of the salient features of JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual is that the author has included examples with which the readers can practice. He has listed step-by-step instructions through which one can build web projects.
About David Sawyer McFarland
David Sawyer McFarland is a writer, trainer, teacher and the president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc. David has published various other books in the bestselling Missing Manual series and they include titles on CSS and Dreamweaver such as Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual, Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual and CSS: The Missing Manual. He takes classes at Portland State University for the multimedia program. In 1995, he designed an online magazine targeting communication professionals. Since then, he has been building websites. His company, Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., is a leading web development and training company in Portland, Oregon.
Table of Contents
Getting Started with JavaScript
Chapter 1 Writing Your First JavaScript Program
Chapter 2 The Grammar of JavaScript
- Introducing Programming
- How to Add JavaScript to a Page
- Your First JavaScript Program
- Writing Text on a Web Page
- Attaching an External JavaScript File
- Tracking Down Errors
Chapter 3 Adding Logic and Control to Your Programs
- Statements
- Built-In Functions
- Types of Data
- Variables
- Working with Data Types and Variables
- Tutorial: Using Variables to Create Messages
- Tutorial: Asking for Information
- Arrays
- Tutorial: Writing to a Web Page Using Arrays
- A Quick Object Lesson
- Comments
- Making Programs React Intelligently
- Tutorial: Using Conditional Statements
- Handling Repetitive Tasks with Loops
- Functions: Turn Useful Code Into Reusable Commands
- Tutorial: A Simple Quiz
Getting Started with jQuery
Chapter 4 Introducing jQuery
Chapter 5 Action/Reaction: Making Pages Come Alive with Events
- About JavaScript Libraries
- Getting jQuery
- Adding jQuery to a Page
- Modifying Web Pages: An Overview
- Understanding the Document Object Model
- Selecting Page Elements: The jQuery Way
- Adding Content to a Page
- Setting and Reading Tag Attributes
- Reading, Setting, and Removing HTML Attributes
- Acting on Each Element in a Selection
- Automatic Pull Quotes
Chapter 6 Animations and Effects
- What Are Events?
- Using Events the jQuery Way
- Tutorial: Introducing Events
- More jQuery Event Concepts
- Advanced Event Management
- Tutorial: A One-Page FAQ
- jQuery Effects
- Tutorial: Login Slider
- Animations
- Performing an Action After an Effect Is Completed
- Tutorial: Animated Dashboard
Building Web Page Features
Chapter 7 Improving Your Images
Chapter 8 Improving Navigation
- Swapping Images
- Tutorial: Adding Rollover Images
- Tutorial: Photo Gallery with Effects
- Advanced Gallery with jQuery FancyBox
- Tutorial: FancyBox Photo Gallery
Chapter 9 Enhancing Web Forms
- Some Link Basics
- Opening External Links in a New Window
- Creating New Windows
- Opening Pages in a Window on the Page
- Basic, Animated Navigation Bar
Chapter 10 Expanding Your Interface
- Understanding Forms
- Adding Smarts to Your Forms
- Tutorial: Basic Form Enhancements
- Form Validation
- Validation Tutorial
- Organizing Information in Tabbed Panels
- Adding a Content Slider to Your Site
- Determining the Size and Position of Page Elements
- Adding Tooltips
Ajax: Communication with the Web Server
Chapter 11 Introducing Ajax
Chapter 12 Flickr and Google Maps
- What Is Ajax?
- Ajax: The Basics
- Ajax the jQuery Way
- JSON
- Introducing JSONP
- Adding a Flickr Feed to Your Site
- Tutorial: Adding Flickr Images to Your Site
- Adding Google Maps to Your Site
Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Chapter 13 Getting the Most from jQuery
Chapter 14 Going Further with JavaScript
- Useful jQuery Tips and Information
- Using the jQuery Docs
- Traversing the DOM
- More Functions For Manipulating HTML
- Advanced Event Handling
Chapter 15 Troubleshooting and Debugging
- Working with Strings
- Finding Patterns in Strings
- Working with Numbers
- Dates and Times
- Putting It All Together
- Writing More Efficient JavaScript
- Creating Fast-Loading JavaScript
- Top JavaScript Programming Mistakes
- Debugging with Firebug
- Debugging Tutorial
Appendix JavaScript Resources
Colophon
- References
- Basic JavaScript
- jQuery
- Ajax
- Advanced JavaScript
- CSS
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Good one!
About the book, I would say that it will be good for a beginner, like somebody who is going to start with JS/JQ, or some one who has an idea and want to explore more.. I like the practical approach by the author very much..
I mean from things like below to complex stuff..
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Brijin Sasankan
Certified Buyer
Jun, 2013
Lovely Book for a Beginner....
I love it a lot, i like the "The Missing Manual" series....its simply......AWESOME to begin with.
Go for it if you are a beginner and has a zeal to learn JavaScript, its the best way to learn. Go for it !!!
Ashok
Certified Buyer
Jul, 2012
Not Javascript but only Jquery
Developing in JQuery is quicker, you don't need to worry about browser compatibility, but it still cannot replace JS because JQuery itself is nothing but a JS library. When I ask for a book that promises me to teach JS and JQuery, it should better not be partial to one over another. What I do with the knowledge is my personal concern.
Subhasis
Certified Buyer, Chandannagar
Aug, 2014
Very Helpful book
Abhay Patil
Certified Buyer, Pune
Jul, 2014
Nice Book for my Collection
Though the one part that I didn't find helpful was the fact that if you are looking to make your own jQuery library then this is not of much help as it does not help in understanding how to code the libraries and their basic logics. For that you will need to get some other book. But to make use of the General stuff available to you, you can take this as a guide.
Tanmay Saxena
Aug, 2013
EXCELLENT BOOK!
REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS BOOK!
!) A bit Knowledge of HTML.
2) A vast knowledge of CSS (especially floating and positioning)
Don't buy this book, It won't be of any use IF YOU DON'T KNOW (or even heard!) of HTML and CSS.
PERFECT FOR BEGINNERS OF JAVA...
Sushila Jaiswal
Certified Buyer, Lucknow
Feb, 2015
Nice book for beginners
Kirti Dhiman
Certified Buyer, Ambala
Nov, 2013
Good Book with full of examples
Avishek Jana
Certified Buyer
May, 2013
Nice Book for someone
Pretty interesting exercises throughout the chapters .
Cons : Only for a beginner ; does not encourage thinking .
Pratyush Kumar
Certified Buyer, Greater Noida
Jan, 2015
Really Nice
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