Beginning JavaScript

JavaScript is the language of the Web. Used for programming all major browsers, JavaScript gives you the ability to enhance your web site by creating interactive, dynamic and personalized pages. Our focus in this book is on client-side scripting, but JavaScript is also hugely popular as a scripting language in server-side environments, a subject that we cover in later chapters.

Beginning JavaScript assumes no prior knowledge of programming languages, and teaches you all the fundamental concepts that you need as you progress. After covering the core JavaScript language, you'll move on to learn about more advanced techniques, including Dynamic HTML, using cookies, debugging techniques, and server-side scripting with ASP. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the art of using JavaScript to create dynamic and professional-looking web pages.

After an initial start as a Visual Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defence in the UK, Paul found himself pulled into the Net. Having joined an Internet development company, he has spent the last 3 years helping create Internet solutions and is currently working on an e-commerce website for a major British bank.

Paul's main skills are in developing web front ends using DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript and Visual Basic and backend solutions with ASP, VB and SQL Server. Currently he is expanding his skill set to include ADSI programming of Windows 2000 Active Directory.