August 2015
Beginner
124 pages
2h 41m
English
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Preface
One thing I’ve learned during my journey as a web developer is that no matter how devoted I am to its subjects in spirit, finding time for said devotion is another matter. The rapidly evolving world of technology is not concerned about how busy anyone is. It does not say, “Relax, take your time to study, I understand you have a family and quiet time for studying is difficult to come by.” What it says is, “Keep evolving, or become obsolete.”
I wrote this book with that sentiment in mind. This book is slim—it intentionally avoids subjects like “the history of JSON.”
Although I am grateful to Douglas Crockford for discovering JSON, I make no mention of him or the years during which JSON evolved into what it is today. This book is about what it is today. If you want to read about this history of JSON, Wikipedia has an excellent summary.
This book aims to shoot for the very heart of the subject of JSON. It is about getting to the point and getting you started quickly. It is for the busy IT professional.
Audience
As I wrote this book for the busy IT professional, I also thought quite a bit about who you are. You could be a beginning frontend web developer. Or perhaps you’ve been focused on server-side web application development for years, and now you need to learn JSON for a web API. You could be a PHP, Ruby, C, Java, or ASP.NET developer. That list goes on. A lot of different people in different roles want and need to learn JSON.
In this book, I avoid excessive jargon ...
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