Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition View Larger Image | Paul Wilton, Jeremy McPeak
Wrox Press, Paperback, 3rd edition, Published May 2007, 1032 pages, ISBN 0470051515 | List Price: $39.99
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Do you want to create more exciting web applications that will increase visits
to your site? With this up-to-date guide, you'll find everything you'll need
to know to develop interactive, robust, and personalized pages using JavaScript.
It takes you step by step through this powerful scripting language so you can
begin enhancing your site right away.
You'll begin with the basic syntax and learn how to take advantage of native
JavaScript objects. Next, you'll see how to manipulate objects that are available
to you in the latest browsers. You'll then progress through more advanced topics,
such as using cookies and jazzing up your web pages with Dynamic HTML.
Inside, you'll also discover how to use Ajax, a communication technique that
uses JavaScript to communicate with a remote web server. All of this will help
you build truly professional-looking applications that allow you to interact
with the user.
What you will learn from this book
• How to use objects such as dates and strings to manage complex data
and simplify your programs
• Tips for using forms, windows, and other controls
• Ways to spot common syntax and logical errors as well as how to use the Microsoft
Script Debugger
• How to make JavaScript interact with XML and HTML
• Techniques for integrating ActiveX and plug-ins with JavaScript
• Steps for communicating with a server using remote scripting
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to learn JavaScript scripting. You should
have some understanding of HTML and how to create static web pages, but no prior
programming experience is necessary.
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and
technologies easier than you think, providing a structured tutorial format that
will guide you through all the techniques involved.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
1. Introduction to JavaScript and the Web.
2. Data Types and Variables.
3. Decisions, Loops, and Functions.
4. JavaScript--An Object-Based Language.
5. Programming the Browser.
6. HTML Forms--Interacting with the User.
7. Windows and Frames.
8. String Manipulation.
9. Date, Time, and Timers.
10. Common Mistakes, Debugging, and Error Handling.
11. Storing Information: Cookies.
12. Introduction to Dynamic HTML.
13. Dynamic HTML in Modern Browsers.
14. JavaScript and XML.
15. Using ActiveX and Plug-Ins with JavaScript.
16. Ajax and Remote Scripting.
Appendix A. Exercise Solutions.
About the Authors
Paul Wilton (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire UK) has been working professionally
as a programmer for over 9 years and in web development for 7 of those years.
He runs his own web development company specializing in building online travel
reservation web sites for vacation properties, and much of the programming he
does for these sites is done in JavaScript. He is the author of both previous
successful editions of Beginning JavaScript.
Jeremy McPeak works in a school district IT department and has been developing
Web solutions since 1998 with JavaScript, PHP, and C#. He recently has written
several articles online covering XSLT, Webforms, and C#. He is a co-author of
the smash best-seller Professional Ajax.
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