Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, 4th Edition

Hour 15Having Fun with JavaScript

Now is the time to sit back and have some fun with JavaScript. Sure, programming is fun in itself, and you already know how easy and enjoyable writing programs can be. Nevertheless, unlike with Python, with JavaScript you can easily do more than write data-processing programs for business and engineering. You can also use JavaScript to jazz up your websites.

The material presented in this hour gives you a framework for adding pizzazz to your programs. You will get an idea of how game programmers do their jobs. You will learn some fundamental concepts that you need in order to write programs that capture a user’s attention.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

Rotating images on a page

Adding ...