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Beginning
JavaScript
®
Paul Wilton, Jeremy McPeak
Beginning
Wilton, McPeak
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JavaScript
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Step-by-step guidance to creating
powerful web apps with JavaScript
4th Edition
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JavaScript allows you to enhance your web pages and web applications
by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. Serving
as a great introduction to JavaScript, this book offers all you need
to start using JavaScript on your web pages right away. It’s fully
updated and covers utilizing JavaScript with the latest versions of the
Internet Explorer
®
, Firefox
®
, and Safari
®
browsers.
• Walks you through the basics of JavaScript: what it is, how it works,
and what you can do with it
• Covers the various tools needed to create JavaScript web applications
• Escorts you through selecting a single character from a string,
converting character codes to a string, and copying string parts
• Shows you how to join arrays, copy parts of an array, sort arrays,
and reverse an array’s order
• Explains how using a JavaScript framework (such as jQuery,
Prototype, and MooTools) makes JavaScript programming faster
and more efficient
• Offers an in-depth look at Ajax
• Reviews common mistakes, debugging, and error handling
Paul Wilton owns his own company, providing online booking systems to
vacation property owners, which is largely developed using JavaScript.
Jeremy McPeak is a self-taught programmer who began his career by tinkering
with web sites in 1998. He is the coauthor of Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition
and several online articles covering topics such as XSLT, ASP
.NET Web Forms,
and C#. He is currently employed at an energy-based company
building in-house conventional and web applications.
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages
and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format
that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
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