Learning Node.js

Learning Node.js LiveLessons provides developers with a practical introduction to Node.js, an exciting new platform for developing web and network applications.

Marc Wandschneider, Senior Developer Advocate at Google, has more than 20 years of experience as a developer and is the author of two programming books and one other LiveLessons video training. In this video training, Marc starts by introducing Node.js, installing, and running it. He then gives a quick refresher course on the JavaScript language and its new features. The video then moves into writing JSON servers, web applications, client-side templates, and continues by covering database access to both SQL and NoSQL database servers. After watching this video, developers will begin to understand why Node.js inspires so much passion, and they will be able to write fast, compact, and reliable applications and web server.

About the Author:

Marc Wandschneider is a developer with over 20 years of industry experience. He has worked at Microsoft, where he developed and managed developers on the Visual Basic, Visual J++, and .NET Windows Forms teams, and co-founded a mobile development startup in Beijing specialising in iOS and Android apps. A graduate of the McGill University School of Computer Science, he travels the globe looking for interesting projects, and will next move to London, England, to become a Developer Advocate for Google, Inc. He is the author of Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL (Prentice Hall; 2005), PHP and MySQL LiveLessons (Prentice Hall 2008), and Learning Node.js (Addison Wesley, 2013).