Learn JavaScript and Ajax with w3Schools - Softcover

W3Schools; Refsnes, Hege; Refsnes, Stale; Refsnes, Kai Jim; Refsnes, Jan Egil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470611944 ISBN 13: 9780470611944

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

Fast, focused instruction for beginning Web developers

W3Schools.com is the number one online education source for beginning Web developers. This attractive two-color book contains concise, highly focused tutorials in the proven W3Schools instructional format, with an easy-to-use reference of JavaScript Objects and the HTML DOM included. Novice developers will quickly learn to create interactive Web pages using the most popular Web scripting language.

• W3Schools is the top Google search result for instruction on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other key Web technologies; this book presents W3Schools tutorials in an easy-to-follow format for quick learning
• Features clear examples, simple explanations, and a thorough reference section covering JavaScript Objects and the HTML DOM
• Covers statements and comments; variables, operators, and comparisons; if…then statements; pop-up boxes; events and try…catch; objects, strings, arrays, and Booleans; cookies, validation, and timing; Ajax requests and XMLHTTP requests; Ajax suggest, and more

Designed to get beginning Web developers up and running as quickly as possible, Learn JavaScript and Ajax with W3Schools presents a proven, highly focused course of instruction in an easy-to-use format.

About this title

About the Author

w3schools is a leading Web destination for learning key Web technologies online. Founded in 1999, it receives more than 10 million unique visitors each month. w3schools tutorials are required reading in more than 100 high schools and universities.

From the Back Cover

There's no faster, easier way to learn JavaScript and Ajax

If you want to start building interactive Web pages right away, you should begin by learning how to use JavaScript and Ajax. w3schools has perfected a straightforward tutorial approach that gives you what you need to know in manageable lessons, liberally supported with examples. You'll find that tried-and-true format in this book, along with a detailed reference section that you will use again and again.

You will learn:

• What JavaScript is and isn't

• How to put JavaScript into an HTML page

• JavaScript special characters and guidelines

• How to use JavaScript operators

• If... else statements and do... while loops

• All about JavaScript objects

• How to use Ajax properties

• What the Ajax XMLHttpRequest Object does

Add JavaScript
Define functions
Create cookies
Declare variables
Create objects
Build Ajax pages

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470611944
• ISBN 13: 9780470611944
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264