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HTML5 opens up a plethora of new avenues for application and game development on the web. Games can now be created and interacted with directly within HTML with no need for users to download extra plugins, or for developers to learn new languages. Important new features such as the Canvas tag enable drawing directly onto the web page, the Audio tag allows sounds to be triggered and played from within your HTML code, the web sockets API brings the facility for real-time communication, and the local storage API enables data such as high scores or game preferences to be kept on a user's computer to be retrieved next time they play your game. All of these features and many more are covered within The Essential Guide to HTML5.
The book begins at an introductory level, teaching the essentials of HTML5 and JavaScript through game development. Each chapter features a familiar game type as its core example, such as hangman, rock-paper-scissors, or dice games, and uses these simple constructs to build a solid skillset of the key HTML5 concepts and features. By working through these hands on examples, you will gain a deep, practical knowledge of HTML5 that will enable you to build your own, more advanced games and applications.
- Concepts are introduced and motivated with easy-to-grasp, appealing examples.
- Code is explained in detail after general explanations.
- Reader is guided into how to make the examples 'their own'.
What you’ll learn
- Use HTML5 and JavaScript to create interactive web sites
- Program in JavaScript with the new HTML5 features
- Draw on canvas and place text on the canvas
- Create animated scenes using timing events
- Handle mouse events for interaction with the user/player
- Important concepts useful in any programming language/environment
- HTML tags, canvas, Math.random, setInterval, setTimerout, addEventListener, Date, localStorage and other features
Who this book is for
Anyone who wants to make interactive websites. This book is suited for:
- Total beginners
- Those who have done some HTML but are afraid to do any programming
- Those with some experience with HTML, JavaScript, or Flash ActionScript but who are unfamiliar with the new features in HTML5
Table of Contents
- The Basics
- Dice Game
- Bouncing Ball
- Cannonball and Slingshot
- The Memory (aka Concentration) Game
- Quiz
- Mazes
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Hangman
- Blackjack
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The problem with the author is that she is having a real problem identifying her target group, you simply can't write a book that is good for total beginners to experts in the same time, it's an impossible mission imo and the case of this book it was a total failure. The author to write a book for everyone but she lost everyone.
Since the start, it was obvious for me that the book is not for experienced developers but my problem was that I thought it will be even worse for beginners, so who is it targeting? For beginners, there is a small chapter called the Basics, this is the basics of HTML (HTML4 in my opinion) and CSS and Javascript, all scrummed in 18 pages with half of them are pictures (and ugly tables for code samples). After that, it jumps straight to using canvas and the drawing api. I can't imagine how is this helpful for a complete beginner.
Another issue for beginners is the code quality, I think that teaching bad habits and design for beginners is just awful and the code samples in here are definitely not top-quality. To make it worse, the author tries hard to re-invent the wheel when it comes to terminology, like scripting languages, compiled languages, objects etc... she tries to explain in a way that she thinks it's simple, I can not say for sure how easy this makes it for beginners but a big part of any serious coding exercise is convention and patterns so I think that beginners will have an easier time speaking the language and terminology that everyone around them will be speaking.
For an experienced reader, who knows some HTML and javascript, there is no real mention of what's new in HTML5, so you will not learn about HTML5. You will - supposedly - learn about the drawing api and canvas, only that. And don't be put off by that, because this api is definitely worth a book by its own, but this is just not the right book.
To top it all, the killer for this book in my view is the very bad layout, using tables for code sample with code on the left and comments on the right, very ugly, very unreadable and ironically enough using TABLES for presentation in a book about HTML5.
This is the first review I write on Amazon and the reason is I got deceived by the two positive reviews the book had at the start, and a colleague of mine also bought it for the same reason so I felt give my honest opinion then you decide.
Since the start, it was obvious for me that the book is not for experienced developers but my problem was that I thought it will be even worse for beginners, so who is it targeting? For beginners, there is a small chapter called the Basics, this is the basics of HTML (HTML4 in my opinion) and CSS and Javascript, all scrummed in 18 pages with half of them are pictures (and ugly tables for code samples). After that, it jumps straight to using canvas and the drawing api. I can't imagine how is this helpful for a complete beginner.
Another issue for beginners is the code quality, I think that teaching bad habits and design for beginners is just awful and the code samples in here are definitely not top-quality. To make it worse, the author tries hard to re-invent the wheel when it comes to terminology, like scripting languages, compiled languages, objects etc... she tries to explain in a way that she thinks it's simple, I can not say for sure how easy this makes it for beginners but a big part of any serious coding exercise is convention and patterns so I think that beginners will have an easier time speaking the language and terminology that everyone around them will be speaking.
For an experienced reader, who knows some HTML and javascript, there is no real mention of what's new in HTML5, so you will not learn about HTML5. You will - supposedly - learn about the drawing api and canvas, only that. And don't be put off by that, because this api is definitely worth a book by its own, but this is just not the right book.
To top it all, the killer for this book in my view is the very bad layout, using tables for code sample with code on the left and comments on the right, very ugly, very unreadable and ironically enough using TABLES for presentation in a book about HTML5.
This is the first review I write on Amazon and the reason is I got deceived by the two positive reviews the book had at the start, and a colleague of mine also bought it for the same reason so I felt give my honest opinion then you decide.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really can't recommend buying this book. It seems to have been written mainly for people with a very short attention span, and therefore skips on explaining why you do things in a specific way. The chosen way of displaying programs listings, while it might have be useful for annotating each line, makes it impossible to look at the program flow, or consider the over all design. The one correct idea - that of incremental program development - becomes merely a vehicle for large spaced out repetitive chunks of code which probably extend the size of the book by as much as 20%.
The code itself, is, how shall I put it, somewhat less than optimal, and not conducive to creating good coding habits by those learning from the book. For instance, in the dice game example, the code for drawing a dot on the dice is repeated in a 'cut and paste' style every time a dot is drawn, instead of being gathered into a function and called each time it is needed.
I shudder to think about what sort of web site someone who learned from this book would put together. Fortunately, perhaps, they are not likely to learn enough from the book to make a web site work.
Definitely not recommended!
The code itself, is, how shall I put it, somewhat less than optimal, and not conducive to creating good coding habits by those learning from the book. For instance, in the dice game example, the code for drawing a dot on the dice is repeated in a 'cut and paste' style every time a dot is drawn, instead of being gathered into a function and called each time it is needed.
I shudder to think about what sort of web site someone who learned from this book would put together. Fortunately, perhaps, they are not likely to learn enough from the book to make a web site work.
Definitely not recommended!
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I also was mislead by the 2 positive reviews. I've only just got round to using the book I bought some time ago and am so disappointed. The code layout is very hard to follow and I don't consider the content is suitable for beginners. As for the author's comment on page 40 of 'In any case, this made sense to me and I programmed and debugged it fairly fast', it is hard to believe she thought this appropriate encouragement for beginners.
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Not the best book for beginners or perhaps anyone.
I purchased this book, lets say from the beginners perspective, luckily for me i already studied the basics of computer programming at university. Read more
Published 6 months ago by DrTyrell
very disappointing
I was pretty much misleaded by the reviews.
This is an absolute beginnersguide, and if you ask me, a bad one. Read more
This is an absolute beginnersguide, and if you ask me, a bad one. Read more
Published 10 months ago by erik
Javascript and Canvas must have
This is a very good book. I've been trying to learn javascript for a longtime but only now am I starting to understand how to implement it. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Phoenix
great for beginners or experienced coders
a great programmer's guide to html5, packed with lots of code examples, puzzles and detailed explanations of what everything does, very comprehensive. Read more
Published 16 months ago by J. A. Griffiths
HTML5 book review
A good way to learn the new HTML5 tags and canvas,with javascript games.
Well documented code,easy to follow guidelines for completion of games!
Well documented code,easy to follow guidelines for completion of games!
Published 17 months ago by Mr. A. J. Howe
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