Jump Start JavaScript

Get a Jump Start on JavaScript today!

JavaScript is a key technology in modern web development, enabling you to craft interactive, usable and engaging experiences for your users.

In just one weekend with this SitePoint book, you'll learn how to:

• Use JavaScript to solve real world problems: build forms, track user events and craft animations
• Use JavaScript with HTML5 and CSS3
• Build an entire JavaScript-powered application from scratch: a task management application

Plus you'll discover how to use modern techniques such as Canvas and Ajax.

Ara Pehlivanian has been working on the Web since 1997. He now works for Nurun* as a Senior Client-side developer and Tech Lead working on projects for highly visible clients.

Don Nguyen's background is in building real time trading systems to analyze every single transaction for multiple markets spanning many years. Applications had to be fast, scalable and fault tolerant. These are exactly the same principles that need to be applied to modern day web applications.