JavaScript Step by Step, 3rd Edition

Description

Your hands-on guide to JavaScript fundamentals

Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of JavaScript. If you have previous programming experience but are new to JavaScript, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:

• Work with JavaScript syntax, variables, and data types
• Master techniques for building cross-browser programs
• Speed up and simplify app development with jQuery
• Quickly retrieve data from a server using AJAX requests
• Adapt your app for mobile devices with jQuery Mobile
• Build Windows 8 apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Javawhat? The where, why, and how of JavaScript
  • Chapter 1: JavaScript is more than you might think
  • Chapter 2: Developing in JavaScript
  • Chapter 3: JavaScript syntax and statements
  • Chapter 4: Working with variables and data types
  • Chapter 5: Using operators and expressions
  • Chapter 6: Controlling flow with conditionals and loops
  • Chapter 7: Working with functions
  • Chapter 8: Objects in JavaScript
  • Chapter 9: The Browser Object Model
  • Chapter 10: An introduction to JavaScript libraries and frameworks
  • Chapter 11: An introduction to jQuery
• Integrating JavaScript into Design
  • Chapter 12: The Document Object Model
  • Chapter 13: JavaScript events and the browser
  • Chapter 14: Working with images in JavaScript
  • Chapter 15: Using JavaScript with web forms
  • Chapter 16: JavaScript and CSS
  • Chapter 17: jQuery effects and plug-ins
  • Chapter 18: Mobile development with jQuery Mobile
  • Chapter 19: Getting data into JavaScript
• AJAX and Server-Side Integration
  • Chapter 20: Using AJAX
  • Chapter 21: Developing for Windows 8
• JavaScript and Windows 8
  • Chapter 22: Using Visual Studio for Windows 8 development
  • Chapter 23: Creating a Windows app
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