Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: Second Editon - Softcover

Ferguson, Russ

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ISBN 10: 1430250925 ISBN 13: 9781430250920

Publisher: Apress, 2013

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Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential resource for modern JavaScript programming. This completely updated second edition covers everything you need to know to get up-to-speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages, right from the basics. As well as focusing on client-side JavaScript, you will also learn how to work with the Browser Object Model, the Document Object Model (DOM), how to use XML and JSON as well as communicate with service side scripts such as PHP. Find out how to:

Construct good JavaScript syntax following modern coding practices
Use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data
Dynamically manipulate markup, validate forms and deal with images
Debug applications using features inside the browser

JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax will take you from being a JavaScript novice to work freely with this important technology - begin your JavaScript journey today!

What you’ll learn

What functions, variables, events and objects are and how to use them.
How build a site that will still work in the case that JavaScript is turned off.
How to access and update part of the page using code.
How to use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data.
How to use JavaScript to for form validation and user feedback.
How to use Third-Party Libraries like jQuery.

Who this book is for

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is for the person who has a good grasp of HTML and CSS but wants to add JavaScript to their skillset. If you want to learn some basic programming concepts, have experience but need help updating your skills, or you’re coming from another language, Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax can help.

Table of Contents

Getting Started with JavaScript
Data and Decisions
From DHTML to DOM Scripting
HTML5 and JavaScript
Presentation and Behavior (CSS and Event Handling)
Common Uses of JavaScript: Image and Windows
JavaScript and User Integration: Navigation and Forms
Back-End Interaction with Ajax and Node.js
Data Validation Techniques
Modern JavaScript Case Study: A Dynamic Gallery
Using Third-Party JavaScript
Appendix A: Debugging JavaScript

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About the Author

RussFerguson is a freelance developer and instructor inthe New York City area. His interest in computers goes back to Atari Basic, CompuServeand BBS systems in the mid 1980 s. For over 10 years he has been fortunate toteach at Pratt Institute, where subjects have been as diverse as the studentbody. Working in New York has given him the opportunity to work with a diversegroup companies who s projects ranged from, developing real-time chat/videoapplications for start-up s to developing and managing, content managementsystems for established Media and Advertising agencies like MTV and DC Comics.

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