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Robin Nixon's HTML & HTML5 Crash Course: Learn HTML5 in 20 Easy Lessons [Kindle Edition]

Robin Nixon

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Why you should read this book

Whether you are a professional or amateur web developer you need all the HTML5 tools in your kit, and this book from the author of the best-selling Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaSript, is the fastest and easiest way there is to learn HTML5.

HTML5 is the future of HTML and all developers need to get up-to-speed with what it offers, including audio and video, without using a plug-in, and a canvas area with professional tools for creating paths, lines, curves, shapes, fills, gradients, patterns, text and more.

It also provides accurate geolocation, background web workers, offline web applications, microdata, a local storage engine and many other improvements to standard HTML, such as dozens of new form tags and attributes, as described in the following chapter list:
  1. Introduction to HTML
  2. The Layout of an HTML Document
  3. The HTML Document Body
  4. Fonts, Colors & Images
  5. Lists & Tables
  6. Links, Forms & Frames
  7. List of HTML 4.01 Tags
  8. An Introduction To HTML5
  9. The HTML5 Canvas
  10. Fills, Rectangles, Gradients & Patterns
  11. Writing Text To The Canvas
  12. Lines, Paths & Curves
  13. Images, Shadows & Pixels
  14. Compositing, Transparency & Transformations
  15. HTML5 Geolocation
  16. HTML5 Forms
  17. HTML5 Local Storage
  18. HTML5 Audio
  19. HTML5 Video
  20. Microdata, Web Workers & Web Applications
Reasons you will learn all you need from this course:
  • Each Lecture begins by listing the three key skills you will learn.
  • A summary at the end of each lecture reminds you what you have learned.
  • Useful, fully-tested examples illustrate every tag, attribute and function.
  • Each lecture features several notes providing extra, handy advice.
  • The examples can all be downloaded from the companion website.

Product Details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 4510 KB
  • Print Length: 287 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0956895611
  • Publisher: Nixon Publishing (July 30 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005FCIVLS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal Mar 22 2012
By I-Cubed from Pennsylvania - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
With a basic overview of HTML in general and specific, pointed examples of the new features in HTML 5, this is the book to start with if you are familiar with the basics of HTML and want to get a real understanding of HTML 5. The book is loaded with examples and exercises (which I suggest you take the time to code again on your own).

When I was reading the book, I wondered why Mr.Nixon covered a number of deprecated (supposed to be retired) tags in his overview of HTML. He is one of the few authors that addresses the reality of deprecated HTML - there are billions of pages on the Web and sooner or later you are going to have to deal with 'deprecated' code whether you like it or not.

Again, the structure of this book is a learning course. It IS important to take the time to code the examples on your own. Just reading will not help in having a complete understanding the powerful features in HTML 5.

My only problem (my problem!) is that Robin does stress the fact that you need to add a real understanding of JavaScript to take full advantage of HTML 5. His mini-overview of JavaScript made me realize that cutting and pasting code from scripting sites is not a long term option. Considering his writing style and clear examples, I am going to look at his JavaScript titles as a crucial step in gaining real understanding of JS. I highly recommend this title.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Informative, but needs an editor. May 15 2012
By W. Callahan - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
This book is a helpful and informative crash course on HTML 5. Unfortunately, it is riddled with typographical and spelling errors. I'm not sure that it was proofread by the author, let alone an editor. It can cause quite a bit of confusion, especially to someone new to HTML, when the author has forgotten an end bracket on a command.

Overall I would recommend this book, but be careful when reading it. It might not say what it means.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything, seriously Jan 27 2012
By Chris Osman - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Picked this book up for promo but I would have happily paid full price for it after having a look. This seems like an experienced users guide, but it really starts from scratch and builds from there. Written for the non-programmer, I found it much easier to read that any of the "random drawing of an animal" programming books.

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