- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Pogue Press; 1 edition (29 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596515898
- ISBN-13: 978-0596515898
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.9 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual, you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without pain or frustration -- even if you have little or no programming experience.
JavaScript expert David McFarland first teaches you the basics by having you build a simple program. Then you'll learn how to work with jQuery, a popular library of pre-built JavaScript components that's free and easy to use. With jQuery, you can quickly build modern, interactive web pages -- without having to script everything from scratch!
- Learn how to add scripts to a web page, store and manipulate information, communicate with the browser window, respond to events like mouse clicks and form submissions, and identify and modify HTML
- Get real-world examples of JavaScript in action
- Learn to build pop-up navigation bars, enhance HTML tables, create an interactive photo gallery, and make web forms more usable
- Create interesting user interfaces with tabbed panels, accordion panels, and pop-up dialog boxes
- Learn to avoid the ten most common errors new programmers make, and how to find and fix bugs
- Use JavaScript with Ajax to communicate with a server so that your web pages can receive information without having to reload
About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is the president of Sawyer McFarland Media Inc., a web development and training company located in Portland, Oregon. In addition, he teaches JavaScript programming, Flash, and web design at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and Ex'Pression College for Digital Arts. He was formerly the webmaster at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center. David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual and Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book a very useful introduction to using javascript and in particular the popular javascript library jquery in your web site. If you are looking for a detailed description of javascript this book probably isn't for you. However if you are looking for a book that explains the basics and how you can learn quickly to employ javascript tecniques (using the jquery library) to enhance your web sites then this is a good book to read. It is useful to have read CSS The Missing Manual first.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As some other reviews point out, this book won't teach you much about JavaScript per se, but it will teach you an awful lot about the JavaScript library, JQuery. At first, I was put off by this because I was convinced I needed to learn "raw" JavaScript. This book changed my mind.
"Raw" JavaScript can be quite cumbersome to use and many frequent tasks facing a web developer have to be written from scratch and tested for compatibility across multiple browser versions. Rather than attempt all this yourself, the author advises you to use a JavaScript library (e.g. JQuery) where many of the repetitive tasks facing web developers, e.g. building galleries, validating forms, hiding/showing elements etc. have already been written and tested for you. JQuery is basically JavaScript with most of the cross-browser incompatibilities eliminated and with added, powerful functionality to handle the most common tasks facing web developers.
Having seen the power and convenience of JQuery, I wouldn't worry too much about learning raw JavaScript - unless you had very specific requirements that JQuery couldn't handle. Indeed, this book has made my other purchase - a dry 800 page book about JavaScript - obsolete.
The best thing is that it tackles all the most common tasks you'll face in the "real world" - just take a look at its contents to see what I mean. Indeed, I can't envision a client-side feature that you couldn't implement with JQuery - and this book shows you most of them.
My only gripe is that there is a lot of repetition in the book. Some may welcome this as it certainly does make the text easy to read and understand but it also adds to its thickness :) Personally, I think by the time you get to page 260, you should know that line X is creating a variable or line Y is calling a function etc.
Thoroughly recommended for those who want to add a bit of JavaScript spice to their websites without taking the masochistic route of learning raw JavaScript. An understanding of HTML and CSS is recommended.
"Raw" JavaScript can be quite cumbersome to use and many frequent tasks facing a web developer have to be written from scratch and tested for compatibility across multiple browser versions. Rather than attempt all this yourself, the author advises you to use a JavaScript library (e.g. JQuery) where many of the repetitive tasks facing web developers, e.g. building galleries, validating forms, hiding/showing elements etc. have already been written and tested for you. JQuery is basically JavaScript with most of the cross-browser incompatibilities eliminated and with added, powerful functionality to handle the most common tasks facing web developers.
Having seen the power and convenience of JQuery, I wouldn't worry too much about learning raw JavaScript - unless you had very specific requirements that JQuery couldn't handle. Indeed, this book has made my other purchase - a dry 800 page book about JavaScript - obsolete.
The best thing is that it tackles all the most common tasks you'll face in the "real world" - just take a look at its contents to see what I mean. Indeed, I can't envision a client-side feature that you couldn't implement with JQuery - and this book shows you most of them.
My only gripe is that there is a lot of repetition in the book. Some may welcome this as it certainly does make the text easy to read and understand but it also adds to its thickness :) Personally, I think by the time you get to page 260, you should know that line X is creating a variable or line Y is calling a function etc.
Thoroughly recommended for those who want to add a bit of JavaScript spice to their websites without taking the masochistic route of learning raw JavaScript. An understanding of HTML and CSS is recommended.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like the other Missing Manuals this book is clear and straightforward. It assumes a reasonable understanding of (x)html and CSS but the chapters are clearly laid out with hands on tutorials covering the theory. Best of all, the book uses jQuery from an early stage. jQuery seems to be THE javascript library at the moment.
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Excellent introduction to Javascript via Jquery.
Top marks to the excellent tutor David Sawyer McFarland for another great learning module of a book! Read more
Published 3 months ago by C. L. Blythen
Excellent Book!
Ideal for anyone like myself who publishes their own web sites but is not a programmer. JavaScript is not an easy language to get to grips with. Read more
Published 4 months ago by ronwooduk
terribly bloated if you're not an absolute beginner in computers
It's the first time I bought a "missing manual", because I was looking for something about javascript/jQuery I could take on holidays, and it got good reviews. Read more
Published 10 months ago by johnny
JavaScript
This is an excellent book for any web designer/developer. It is well laid out with lots of valuable content. I highly recommend this book.
Published 19 months ago by John Neale
great first book to get into jquery
I started and stopped reading this book several times, as more important stuff kept coming up, but always kept coming back to it as it was very well written and covered a wide... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. S. A. Stewart
Big disappointment
Having previously read, from cover to cover, css: the missing manual, I had high hopes for this book. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Richie
Not quite what I expected.
I wouldn't recommend this book to an absolute beginner in JavaScript (like me). I think it's more suited to an intermediate programmer who understands JavaScript and wants to learn... Read more
Published 22 months ago by helloprograms
Great Book with easy-to-follow examples
I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who wants to pick up ideas and models to be used in planning a website
Published 23 months ago by Stan
A very good job.
It is probably something unmissable for someone who want to begin a web activity. It is written in an easy way giving you the possibility to grow smoothly in the knowledge of the... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Alberto Maria Grippa
Great cookbook for some tasty Javascript recipies
This book is a great introduction to JavaScript which focuses on producing usable and easy to understand scripts for use with your website. Read more
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