Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design - Softcover

Ullman, Larry Ullman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321812522 ISBN 13: 9780321812520

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2012

Synopsis

It’s time for a current, definitive JavaScript book, and in this comprehensive beginner’s guide, bestselling author Larry Ullman teaches the language as it is implemented today. Larry demonstrates how to build upon JavaScript’s ease of use, while demystifying its often-cryptic syntax, especially for those who have not programmed before. This book enforces modern JavaScript’s best practices and embraces key Web development approaches such as progressive enhancement and unobtrusive scripting. The author demonstrates loads of real-world code and makes it available for download.

You’ll learn about JavaScript itself and the relationship between JavaScript and HTML. Next you’ll explore variables, common operators, and control structures. Then you’ll create functions, handle events, and do more with HTML forms. You’ll master Ajax, work with frameworks, and use JavaScript with PHP to create a complete example. The result is a book that helps you not just tinker with JavaScript but to thoroughly comprehend it.

This book includes:

• Easy step-by-step instruction, ample illustrations, and clear examples

• Real-world techniques to build your skills
  

• Insight into best practices from a veteran Web expert
  

• Emphasis on strategies for creating reliable code that will work on all of today’s browsers and devices, even those without JavaScript
  

About this title

From the Author:

Thanks for your interest in this book. I first started using JavaScript in 1999, when it was a significantly different language than it is today. Or, more accurately, the language is almost exactly the same, but how it is used today differs tremendously. Most of the first books on the language covered JavaScript as it was being used at the time: as a toy language, intended to add tricks and gimmicks to Web pages. Few books taught JavaScript as a true programming language, rather working more like recipe books. For example, readers might learn how to create a simple calculator, but fail to pick up fundamentals such as the differences between various data types. As JavaScript's usage evolved, these books retained too much of the outdated code and approaches, still presenting terrible practices like inline JavaScript (as opposed to unobtrusive JavaScript) and browser detection. For these and other reasons, many readers such as myself felt like there just were not many books that taught real and professional JavaScript to the average Web developer. That's why I wrote this book.Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design was written to teach JavaScript as a complete programming language. The book does so using practical examples and emphasizing approaches that represent how the language should truly be used today. You'll learn sound Web development theory, relying heavily upon unobtrusive JavaScript, progressive enhancement, and object detection, among other concepts. At the same time, you'll also walk away with plenty of usable code and many examples that are applicable to today's Web. There's even a chapter on using JavaScript and PHP together to create a complete, functional, and reliable Web application (the basis of an auction site). Finally, you can download all the scripts from my Web site. I also run a support forum where you can ask questions and get help. Secondary and supporting articles are also published on my Web site, and at the publisher's site. Thanks again for the interest in the book!

About the Author:

Larry Ullman is a writer, Web and software developer, trainer, instructor, speaker, and consultant. He has written 22 books and numerous articles. His books have sold over 350,000 copies worldwide in more than 20 languages. As his readers, students, and co-workers can attest, Larry's strength is in translating geek into English: converting the technical and arcane into something comprehensible and useful.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0321812522
• ISBN 13: 9780321812520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624