Book description
The bestselling JavaScript guide, updated with current features and best practices
Beginning JavaScript 5th Edition shows you how to work effectively with JavaScript frameworks, functions, and modern browsers, and teaches more effective coding practices using HTML5. This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect the way JavaScript is most commonly used today, introducing you to the latest tools and techniques available to JavaScript developers. Coverage includes modern coding practices using HTML5 markup, the JSON data format, DOM APIs, the jQuery framework, and more. Exercises with solutions provide plenty of opportunity to practice, and the companion website offers downloadable code for all examples given in the book.
Learn JavaScript using the most up to date coding style
Understand JSON, functions, events, and feature detection
Utilize the new HTML5 elements and the related API
Explore new features including geolocation, local storage, and more
JavaScript has shaped the Web from a passive medium into one that is rich, dynamic, and interactive. No matter the technology on the server side, it's JavaScript that makes it come alive in the browser. To learn JavaScript the way it's used today, Beginning JavaScript, 5th Edition is your concise guide.
Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO JAVASCRIPT AND THE WEB
- CHAPTER 2: DATA TYPES AND VARIABLES
- CHAPTER 3: DECISIONS AND LOOPS
- CHAPTER 4: FUNCTIONS AND SCOPE
- CHAPTER 5: JAVASCRIPT—AN OBJECT-BASED LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER 6: STRING MANIPULATION
- CHAPTER 7: DATE, TIME, AND TIMERS
- CHAPTER 8: PROGRAMMING THE BROWSER
- CHAPTER 9: DOM SCRIPTING
- CHAPTER 10: EVENTS
- CHAPTER 11: HTML FORMS: INTERACTING WITH THE USER
- CHAPTER 12: JSON
- CHAPTER 13: DATA STORAGE
- CHAPTER 14: AJAX
- CHAPTER 15: HTML5 MEDIA
- CHAPTER 16: JQUERY
- CHAPTER 17: OTHER JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES
- CHAPTER 18: COMMON MISTAKES, DEBUGGING, AND ERROR HANDLING
- APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
- APPENDIX B: JAVASCRIPT CORE REFERENCE
- APPENDIX C: W3C DOM REFERENCE
- APPENDIX D: LATIN-1 CHARACTER SET
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- CREDITS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ADVERT
- EULA
Product information
- Title: Beginning JavaScript, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2015
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9781118903339
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