JavaScript Goodies - Softcover

Burns Ph.D., Joe; Growney, Andree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789726122 ISBN 13: 9780789726124

Publisher: Que, 2001

Synopsis

Focusing on JavaScript, this text features dozens of real-world sample programs and covers such topics as enabling mouse events, using variables, working with math operators and writing loops. The text contains useful appendices which readers can refer to for a quick reference.

About this title

About the Author

Joe Burns, Ph.D. is a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Web design and Internet-mediated communication. Joe is the Webmaster of HTML Goodies (htmlgoodies), a site devoted to teaching HTML and Web design that serves up close to seven million pages every month to almost a half-million individual readers. He is also an Internet consultant for Internet. Joe first became interested in the Internet while studying for his Ph.D. at Bowling Green State University. There he created HTML Goodies and first began teaching computer classes. Joe is currently working on the viability of delivering university-level classes over the Internet and the effect of teaching in a Web-based environment. Joe lives in Hammond, Louisiana, with his wife Tammy, and two cats, Chloe and Mardi.

Andree Growney is currently a software engineer at TERC, a nonprofit educational research and development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she does Internet applications development. She has been working with computers for more than 20 years. A former programmer and systems analyst, she became infatuated with the Web early in its development. She was formerly the Webmaster at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where she also taught client/server and other database-to-Web¿related courses.

From the Back Cover

"JavaScript Goodies, Second Edition" is based on the most popular JavaScript tutorials at HTMLGoodies.com. It starts with the basics, including JavaScript syntax and common errors readers may encounter. It then continues with detailed lessons covering Enabling mouse events Using variables Working with math operators Writing loops

Later chapters explain complex add-ons, including clocks and counters, passwords, and animation. The book finishes with a series of useful appendices readers can refer to for a quick reference of basic JavaScript features and commands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Que
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789726122
• ISBN 13: 9780789726124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 504