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JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects—but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of prewritten JavaScript code. You’ll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Make your pages interactive. Create JavaScript events that react to visitor actions.
- Use animations and effects. Build drop-down navigation menus, pop-ups, automated slideshows, and more.
- Improve your user interface. Learn how the pros make websites fun and easy to use.
- Collect data with web forms. Create easy-to-use forms that ensure more accurate visitor responses.
- Add a dash of Ajax. Enable your web pages to communicate with a web server without a page reload.
- Practice with living examples. Get step-by-step tutorials for web projects you can build yourself.
About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He's been building websites since 1995, when he designed an online magazine for communication professionals. He's served as webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and oversaw a complete CSS-driven redesign of Macworld.com. David is also a writer and trainer, and teaches in the Portland State University multimedia program. He wrote the bestselling Missing Manual titles on Adobe Dreamweaver, CSS, and JavaScript.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
I got this book in the hope that I will learn more about creating jquery web tools; but I got very disappointed once I discovered that things like galleries or menu navigation are done using plug-ins.Is pretty lame when you buy a book to learn how to build something and the book is explaining you how to use some plug-ins that someone else already built them ... where is the learning process?
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4.6 out of 5 stars (22 customer reviews) 35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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Thorough but Approachable,
By Alex - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
This is a very well written book. I admit I was not completely new to jQuery when I read this, so I'm not sure about the learning curve, but I felt the book does a better job of fully explaining things than some other jQuery books do. It often provides line by line explanations of code rather than just summaries or generalizations. The book is a bit longer than some other jQuery books because of this added detail, and also because it really does cover a lot of material.I enjoyed the writing style/tone of the book - it's not overly technical/serious, but also isn't over the top. I also really appreciate the unqiue approach it takes of teaching you everything practical you need to know about "raw" javascript in order to enhance jQuery without getting into details many users may not need to know. If you're wondering, the content is roughly 3/4ths jquery and 1/4th pure javascript. I do have a few complaints - the book does occasionally spend a bit too much time talking about specific plug-ins and how to use them. Usually it walks you through you how to do a simple task and then uses a plug-in for a more advanced version of it (such as galleries and form validation). I have mixed feelings about this (especially when some of these plug-ins have complete documentation on their websites) but since this is really just a personal opinion I didn't take a star off for it. There is also very little content related to making your own plug-ins, which is a cool feature of jQuery that a few other books do touch on. I found this odd given how often the book talks about plug-ins. There are a few typos here and there but I did not find any that affected the success of the examples - mostly just grammatical things. Overall my favorite book on jQuery thus far, highly recommended! 26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Introduction to jQuery,
By David Hayden "Developer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book and the writing style. The author takes a concept-tutorial ( cookbook ) approach where he first introduces you to the concepts of selectors, events, animation, etc. and then walks through 1 or more tutorials that show you how to leverage those concepts to add common features to your website. The tutorials are useful, like FAQ's, drop-down menus, Google Maps, Flickr Feeds, photo galleries, form validation, etc. If you follow along with the book and write the CSS and jQuery, you will indeed get a very good understanding of the functionality found in most websites today.In addition to writing most of your own jQuery, the author also introduces you to a few jQuery Plugins that provide similar functionality. This way you understand the concepts, know how to develop the solution yourself, but also get the efficiency of using available, feature-rich plugins. I agree with another reviewer that these discussions of various plugins can't get a bit long, but often jQuery Plugins don't have the best documentation so this is nice to have for reference in case you do use the plugin for your projects. My only complaint is the inclusion of "JavaScript" in the title of the book. I believe it is a bit misleading as it only has some basic coverage of JavaScript. It is just a simple intro to variables, looping, etc. Make no mistake that this is a jQuery book. Don't expect to truly learn JavaScript. IMHO, the book is geared for beginners that want more than the documentation-type snippets you get from jQuery in Action and less visual noise that you get from Head First jQuery. It's a really good cookbook that teaches you the concepts and then how to apply those concepts in the real world in a very easy-to-follow approach. I highly recommended it if you are new to jQuery and enjoy the cookbook style approach to learning without the need of seeing every possible piece of the API and numerous pictures and visuals to understand it. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Excellent Intro to JQuery and JavaScript,
By David White - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
I'm very pleased with this book. It has clear tutorials that are easy to follow and allow you to do very impressive things on a website.The book starts with a good introduction to JavaScript and then proceeds to JQuery. It covers a wide range of topics that I found helpful such as a photo gallery, and user verification. I would have rated it five stars but there were a number of grammar and spelling errors that sometimes made it difficult to follow. |
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