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JavaScript Goodies, Second Edition is based on the most popular JavaScript tutorials at HTMLGoodies.com. It starts with the basics, including JavaScript syntax and common errors readers may encounter. It then continues with detailed lessons covering
Later chapters explain complex add-ons, including clocks and counters, passwords, and animation. The book finishes with a series of useful appendices readers can refer to for a quick reference of basic JavaScript features and commands.
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Burns provides a quick refresher on JavaScript scripting and the basics of the object model. But what can you actually do with JavaScript? The book illustrates how to produce effects in response to mouse events and perform image gymnastics. The presentation is so immediately rewarding that you may forget you're following a language tutorial.
This guide is packed with real-world code you can use to spice up your pages. It also covers a wide range of topics that lead to holistic JavaScript knowledge, including arrays, random number generation, timer implementations, and user-interface techniques.
Burns maintains all of the example code and assignments from the book on his site, as well as a zipped version of all the files for download. As he presents each technique, he discusses the concept, illustrates the code, and pulls it apart to show you how it works. Each discussion also includes assignments that are refreshingly fun. If dry language tutorials put you to sleep, this book will hold your attention. --Stephen W Plain
Joe Burns, Ph.D. is a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Web design and Internet-mediated communication. Joe is the Webmaster of HTML Goodies (http://www.htmlgoodies.com), a site devoted to teaching HTML and Web design that serves up close to seven million pages every month to almost a half-million individual readers. He is also an Internet consultant for Internet.com. Joe first became interested in the Internet while studying for his Ph.D. at Bowling Green State University. There he created HTML Goodies and first began teaching computer classes. Joe is currently working on the viability of delivering university-level classes over the Internet and the effect of teaching in a Web-based environment. Joe lives in Hammond, Louisiana, with his wife Tammy, and two cats, Chloe and Mardi.
Andree Growney is currently a software engineer at TERC, a nonprofit educational research and development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she does Internet applications development. She has been working with computers for more than 20 years. A former programmer and systems analyst, she became infatuated with the Web early in its development. She was formerly the Webmaster at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where she also taught client/server and other database-to-Web¿related courses.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.The book opens with a look at the main objects of a web page that are used in JavaScript and gives some example scripts that are explained in detail. In fact, the book is full of scripts that are used to explain each technique as you learn. The key concept of what an object is and what properties, methods, and events are is explained in some detail. Validating a form is explained. Image flipping and animation are covered. Example scripts will explain how to create scrolling text and a digital clock on your web pages. Basic programming techniques such as if statements, loops, and arrays are covered.
Examples are really the one thing that make this book worth the investment. Each new subject being discussed is introduced with a script followed by explanations and further examples. Then an assignment is given to help you verify that you have learned the information covered. The solutions to all the assignments are on the author's website.
The book covers the basics of JavaScript and will provide a good foundation for the novice. After reading this book you won't be an expert JavaScript programmer but you will be ready to move on to more complex programming tasks and more difficult books.
