Coding with JavaScript FD (For Dummies Series) - Softcover

Minnick, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119056071 ISBN 13: 9781119056072

Publisher: For Dummies, 2015

Synopsis

Go from beginner to builder quickly with this hands-on JavaScript guide.

Coding with JavaScript For Dummies provides easy, hands-on instruction for anyone looking to learn this popular client-side language. No experience? No problem! This friendly guide starts from the very beginning and walks you through the basics, then shows you how to apply what you've learned to real projects. You'll start building right away, including web page elements and simple applications, so you can immediately see how JavaScript is used in the real world. Online exercises allow you to test your code and expand your skills, and the easy-to-follow instruction provides step-by-step guidance toward understanding the JavaScript syntax, applications, and language.

JavaScript enhances static web pages by providing dynamic elements that can adapt and react to user action. It's a need-to-know tool for aspiring web designers, but anyone can benefit from understanding this core development language. Coding with JavaScript For Dummies takes you from beginner to builder quickly as you:

• Learn what JavaScript does, how it works, and where to use it
• Master the core elements of JavaScript and immediately put it to work
• Build interactive web elements and try out your code online
• Create basic applications as you apply JavaScript to the app development workflow

Anytime a website responds to your movement around the screen, that's JavaScript. It makes websites more functional, more beautiful, and more engaging, and your site visitors will demand nothing less. If you want to build a better website, you need JavaScript. If you need JavaScript, Coding with JavaScript For Dummies gets you started off quickly and painlessly, with plenty of hands-on practice.

            

About this title

About the Authors

Chris Minnick is an accomplished author, trainer, and web developer who has worked on web and mobile projects for both small and major businesses. Eva Holland is an experienced writer and trainer who has designed and taught online, in-person, and video courses. They are cofounders of WatzThis?

Chris Minnick is an accomplished author, trainer, and web developer who has worked on web and mobile projects for both small and major businesses. Eva Holland is an experienced writer and trainer who has designed and taught online, in-person, and video courses. They are cofounders of WatzThis?

From the Back Cover

Learn to:

• Go from no coding experience to knowing your way around JavaScript
• Add interactive elements to websites
• Develop, debug, and deploy JavaScript apps

Learn JavaScript — the fun, fast, and easy way to create dynamic websites!

JavaScript is essential for creating modern websites, and this easy-to-follow guide makes learning JavaScript basics a snap. Discover what JavaScript does, get a handle on basic syntax, learn to work with CSS and graphics online, and even explore how to use JavaScript with HTML5. Once you know the basics, you can refine and practice your skills at Codecademy.com.

• Build the foundation — learn what JavaScript does, how it works, and where to use it
• Get started — master the core elements of JavaScript as you begin building basic applications
• Put the parts together — make sense of variables, arrays, operators, branching, and looping
• Organize your JavaScript — find out how to create and use functions and objects
• Move online — discover how JavaScript works in a web browser and learn to manipulate documents, handle events, and integrate input and output
• Explore advanced uses — see how to use regular expressions, callbacks, anonymous functions, and closures
• Find more cool tools — learn to use HTML5 APIs and jQuery^® to enhance your JavaScript programming
• Test your skills — visit Codecademy.com to try your hand at coding with JavaScript

Open the book and find:

• How to set up your development environment
• What arrays are for
• The importance of loops
• Ways to do more with less code using jQuery
• Help working with JavaScript animations
• Tips on modifying styles and colors
• What you can do with AJAX
• Ten common bugs and how to avoid them

From the Inside Flap

Learn to:

• Go from no coding experience to knowing your way around JavaScript
• Add interactive elements to websites
• Develop, debug, and deploy JavaScript apps

Learn JavaScript — the fun, fast, and easy way to create dynamic websites!

JavaScript is essential for creating modern websites, and this easy-to-follow guide makes learning JavaScript basics a snap. Discover what JavaScript does, get a handle on basic syntax, learn to work with CSS and graphics online, and even explore how to use JavaScript with HTML5. Once you know the basics, you can refine and practice your skills at Codecademy.com.

• Build the foundation — learn what JavaScript does, how it works, and where to use it
• Get started — master the core elements of JavaScript as you begin building basic applications
• Put the parts together — make sense of variables, arrays, operators, branching, and looping
• Organize your JavaScript — find out how to create and use functions and objects
• Move online — discover how JavaScript works in a web browser and learn to manipulate documents, handle events, and integrate input and output
• Explore advanced uses — see how to use regular expressions, callbacks, anonymous functions, and closures
• Find more cool tools — learn to use HTML5 APIs and jQuery^® to enhance your JavaScript programming
• Test your skills — visit Codecademy.com to try your hand at coding with JavaScript

Open the book and find:

• How to set up your development environment
• What arrays are for
• The importance of loops
• Ways to do more with less code using jQuery
• Help working with JavaScript animations
• Tips on modifying styles and colors
• What you can do with AJAX
• Ten common bugs and how to avoid them

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1119056071
• ISBN 13: 9781119056072
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360