1. Jumping into jQuery, JavaScript, and the World of Dynamic Web Development

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1. Jumping into jQuery, JavaScript, and the World of Dynamic Web Development

JavaScript and its amped-up counterpart jQuery have completely changed the game when it comes to creating rich interactive web pages and web-based applications. JavaScript has long been a critical component for creating dynamic web pages. Now, with the advancements in the jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile libraries, dynamic web development has changed forever.

This chapter focuses on providing you with some concepts of dynamic web programming and getting set up to use JavaScript and jQuery in your web pages.

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