Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: Second Editon

by Christian Heilmann, Russ Ferguson

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential resource for modern JavaScript programming. This completely updated second edition covers everything you need to know to get up-to-speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages, right from the basics. As well as focusing on client-side JavaScript, you will also learn how to work with the Browser Object Model, the Document Object Model (DOM), how to use XML and JSON as well as communicate with service side scripts such as PHP. Find out how to: Construct good JavaScript syntax following modern coding practices Use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data Dynamically manipulate markup, validate forms and deal with images Debug applications using features inside the browser JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax will take you from being a JavaScript novice to work freely with this important technology - begin your JavaScript journey today! What you'll learn What functions, variables, events and objects are and how to use them. How build a site that will still work in the case that JavaScript is turned off. How to access and update part of the page using code. How to use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data. How to use JavaScript to for form validation and user feedback. How to use Third-Party Libraries like jQuery. Who this book is for

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is for the person who has a good grasp of HTML and CSS but wants to add JavaScript to their skillset. If you want to learn some basic programming concepts, have experience but need help updating your skills, or you're coming from another language, Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax can help.

Genres: Programming

388 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Robert Thompson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I finished reading this book about a month or so ago. I have waited to review it up until now because I was waiting on receiving a book that actually does what this "claims" to. That is, teach JavaScript.

I'll start off by saying that I had high hopes for this reference book. Almost every single one was bashed against the rocks of my complete and utter disappointment. To say that this book has issues would be an extreme understatement. It's an abysmal attempt at best and at its worst, a seemingly unedited, non-uniformly formatted, eye straining, sleep inducing jumble.

I've read quite a few programming books and I have to say this is the worst formatting I have ever seen. Actually implying that it's formatted is giving this book too much credit. Code formatting is inconsistent within single chapters, sometimes even between paragraphs. It made me second guess myself constantly, as well as having to look more carefully for mistakes and typos(more on that in a bit).

Never have I seen a programming reference book, use similar fonts for coding passages, as it does for instructional paragraphs. Not to mention that every font in the book is in the same color, black. There are a few instances of bold text interspersed through-out but I have to be admit, they might as well have been printer errors, for all they've helped me.

This leads me to the real problem with the book. It has way too many typos for a programming reference. Absolutely riddled with missing or incorrect characters. Mixed with the shoddy formatting, this book is not unreadable, its unfathomable. I wouldn't say shoot the editor but at the very least he should get the rack.

Avoid this book, please.

I just received JavaScript and Jquery Interactive Front-End Web Development and so far reading it has been a pleasure.

[Mohamad Amir · Rating 4 out of 5]

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