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JavaScript: The Missing Manual View Larger Image | David Sawyer McFarland
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published July 2008, 543 pages, ISBN 0596515898 | List Price: $39.99
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JavaScript is essential for creating modern, interactive websites. But, unlike
HTML and CSS, JavaScript is a true programming language with complex rules that
are challenging for most web designers to learn. In JavaScript: The Missing
Manual, bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript
in sophisticated ways -- even if you have little or no programming experience.
In a clear, entertaining way, the book starts out by teaching you how to build
a basic JavaScript program. Then, once you've mastered the structure and terminology,
you'll learn how to use advanced JavaScript tools to add useful interactivity
to your sites quickly and painlessly, rather than scripting everything from scratch.
To jump-start your progress, the book offers several "living examples" -- step-by-step
tutorials for building website components with JavaScript using raw materials,
such as graphics and half-completed Web pages, that you can download from the
book's companion website. In this book:
- Getting Started introduces the building blocks of JavaScript, and
general tips on computer programming. Learn 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.
- Building Web Page Features provides real-world examples of JavaScript
in action. Learn to create pop-up navigation bars, enhance HTML tables, build
an interactive photo gallery, and make web forms more usable. Create interesting
user interfaces with tabbed panels, accordion panels and pop-up dialog boxes.
- Troubleshooting and Debugging shows you how to avoid the ten most
common errors new programmers make, and how to find and fix bugs.
- Communicating with the Web Server covers Ajax, the approach that
made JavaScript glamorous. Learn to use JavaScript to communicate with a server
so that your web pages can receive information without having to reload.
If you want to put JavaScript to work right away with getting tangled up in
code, JavaScript: The Missing Manual is the best book available.
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’Pressions
Center for New Media. 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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