Getting Started with JavaScript: A JavaScript Beginner's Guide to Building Dynamic Web and Mobile Apps with Hands-On Examples and 200+ Sample Projects (Rheinwerk Computing) - Softcover

Thomas Theis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493225839 ISBN 13: 9781493225835

Publisher: Rheinwerk Computing, 2024

Synopsis

New to programming and JavaScript? Look no further! With this beginner’s guide, learn the language ABCs and start developing applications. Walk through the programming basics: branches, functions, methods, objects, and more. Then create forms and events; use the Document Object Model (DOM); and work with large data sets, processing strings, mathematics, time, and other data structures. Design your web and mobile applications using tools like Ajax, CSS, jQuery, and Onsen UI. Follow code examples and expert tips, and you’ll be developing in no time!

• Get to know the basics of JavaScript development, from HTML to jQuery
• Learn to create dynamic web and mobile applications by working with key language features such as objects, forms, events, and the DOM
• Download more than 200 complete sample programs to use as project templates

Language Basics
Master the building blocks of JavaScript programming. From performing calculations to finding and avoiding errors, you’ll learn the essential skills you need for web application development.

JavaScript in Practice
Start developing with JavaScript! Learn how to work with standard and custom objects, forms and events, and the DOM. Design with CSS, add 2D and 3D graphics with SVG and Three.js, simplify your tasks with jQuery, and much more!

Example Exercises
Reinforce your knowledge with programming exercises. For each core concept, follow along with code examples that are available for download. Get insight into professional development with JavaScript through sample projects!

• Programming basics
• Web application development
• Forms and events
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• Ajax
• XML and JSON
• CSS and HTML properties
• Graphics and animations
• jQuery
• Mobile apps with Onsen UI
• Media files
• Example projects

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Theis has more than 40 years of experience as a software developer and as an IT lecturer. He holds a graduate degree in computer engineering. He has taught at numerous institutions, including the Aachen University of Applied Sciences. He conducts training courses for JavaScript, C/C++, Visual Basic, and web programming, and is the author of several successful technical books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rheinwerk Computing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493225839
• ISBN 13: 9781493225835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520