Product Description
This friendly, solutions-oriented guide is filled with step-by-step examples that illustrate how to write basic to advanced JavaScript applications, as well as modify existing scripts to suit individual needs. Each chapter begins with the specific how-to topics that will be covered. Within the chapter, each topic is accompanied by a solid, easy-to-follow walkthrough of the process.
Book Info
Provides a comfortable, friendly platform for any level programmer who wants to maximize JavaScript. Features solid coverage of versions 1.0 and 2.0. Softcover.
From the Back Cover
Bring interactivity to any Web site with this easy-to-follow guidebook on JavaScript. Author Scott Duffy takes the fear out of working with a programming language by delivering instruction and theory in manageable doses, along with practical examples and plenty of ready-to-use code. Learn to write a program by exploring statements, variables, and functions--the three basic building blocks of any program. Use JavaScript as the behind-the-scenes director of your Web browser presentation. Create basic and advanced JavaScript applications--plus, modify existing scripts to suit your needs--all with the help of this great resource.
- Write your own program using statements, variables, and functions
- Learn the history of the language and what it can do for you
- Enable movement and interactivity for your Web site
- Determine which version of JavaScript is right for you
- Store dates, numbers, and more with built-in classes
- Create scripts that work in every browser
- Understand the basics of expressions, and organize your code into functions
- Cause text or graphics to change on mouse rollovers
- Automatically change a formatted date on a Web page
- Coordinate objects and events seamlessly with built-in or scripted classes
About the Author
Scott Duffy (Toronto, Ontario) MCSD, Sun Java 2 SCJP, CIW Associate, has eleven years of professional software design and development experience including having spent five of the past six years on web-based application development. He has written several books including "How to Do Everything with JavaScript" published by Osborne McGraw-Hill in 2002.
