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The Joy of Bootstrap: A smarter way to learn the world's most popular web framework
How to build awesome browser applications that scale to mobile devices, even if you've never programmed beforeDo you want to build browser applications that make people say "wow!" when they see it? Of course you do! I do too. How about apps that look great on a mobile device and size automatically for different screens? Yep, I want that too. :)Experiment with the code on the Companion Web SiteThe book has tons of Bootstrap example source code which you can tweak and play with. It's all available at where you can even edit the code without downloading it. (Go ahead, try it now!) The book will walk you through all the hard code and explain how it works.The Bootstrap book for you....I write books that are easy to read and easily digestible. I group the chapters into easy, logical concepts that work together but still stand on their own. I write in a fun, conversational style that makes technical topics approachable for beginners. When it makes sense I build on early concepts to take you into progressively more advanced (cool) topics and exercises.My books don't cover every function and nuance-- those books are too much like bricks for my taste-- instead my books are relatively thin with the goal to launch you into a subject as quickly as possible and empower you with the basics right away. We'll also continue to use the successful metaphor of "Sam's Used Cars", a fictional web site that gives you a context in which to learn along. We'll take a plain and boring HTML website and bring it to life with Bootstrap.Designed for everyone, everywhere.Bootstrap is a framework that makes front-end web development faster and easier. A couple of guys at Twitter invented it and later made it open source. Other people have joined in and it is now in it's third major release. Bootstrap 3 is good for people of all skill levels, devices of all shapes, and projects of all sizes. But there aren't enough good books out there to help you learn if you're new to it...at all. Amazon has just 12 books on the topic of Bootstrap, as contrasted with 585 books about PHP.
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First published August 6, 2014
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May 3, 2020
Just what you need to get started
Loved it. Had some knowledge but this brings it all together and makes it gel. Simple, easy to follow, and doesn’t assume you have the brains of a Turing. Highly recommend.
Loved it. Had some knowledge but this brings it all together and makes it gel. Simple, easy to follow, and doesn’t assume you have the brains of a Turing. Highly recommend.
April 5, 2018
Good for beginners
Id you don't know anything about bootstrap or if you want to quickly revise important concepts of bootstrap framework, you can read this.
Id you don't know anything about bootstrap or if you want to quickly revise important concepts of bootstrap framework, you can read this.
October 17, 2016
This book requires you to sit at a computer to view the examples. It has the code, but you have to go to his website to see what it actually does. I am not a fan - I could just learn on the computer, but I opted for a book. It just doesn't work.
There is very little explanation given for what the code does (or means). He gives very simplistic explanations ("nav bars are used on many websites") and then jumps into a block of code without explaining what the parts do. And then, if you want to see what it does, you have to go to his site.
There is very little explanation given for what the code does (or means). He gives very simplistic explanations ("nav bars are used on many websites") and then jumps into a block of code without explaining what the parts do. And then, if you want to see what it does, you have to go to his site.
December 17, 2015
Not much insight
This book was very dry. It's a paraphrasing of the Bootstrap documentation, without the pictures or unique thoughts that help someone learn. Also, the HTML was without any indentation, at least in this Kindle version. I kept thinking it would get better. Sadly, it didn't.
This book was very dry. It's a paraphrasing of the Bootstrap documentation, without the pictures or unique thoughts that help someone learn. Also, the HTML was without any indentation, at least in this Kindle version. I kept thinking it would get better. Sadly, it didn't.
April 18, 2015
good book
I like this book. Not to many detail, but enough information to know bootstrap. The companion website is very usefull too, but need more synchrone book and the web.
I like this book. Not to many detail, but enough information to know bootstrap. The companion website is very usefull too, but need more synchrone book and the web.
May 10, 2017
Great resourse and customer support!
I have been studying Web Development technologies for a year now and downloaded your book to get a better handle on Bootstrap. I can't wait to apply the information you provided in your book to my next web site. Specifically, the Jumbotron carousel and progress bar.
I have been studying Web Development technologies for a year now and downloaded your book to get a better handle on Bootstrap. I can't wait to apply the information you provided in your book to my next web site. Specifically, the Jumbotron carousel and progress bar.
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