JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Sams Teach Yourself Series

by Phil Ballard, Michael Moncur (Contributor)

Learn JavaScript in 24 Hours Covers JavaScript 1.8+, Ajax and jQuery

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to create dynamic, interactive Web pages with the popular and ubiquitous JavaScript web programming language.

Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book clearly and carefully walks you through basic concepts and techniques, and helps you learn the essentials of JavaScript programming from the ground up.
Learn how to… Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common JavaScript programming tasks Quizzes at end of every chapter help you build and test your knowledge Interactive online exercises let you practice what you learn at the Codecademy web site with no downloads or installation needed
Sams Publishing has teamed up with Codecademy — the online place where anyone can learn and teach coding — to provide readers of Sams Teach Yoruself JavaScript in 24 Hours with an exclusive area on the Codecademy web site where you can supplement what you've learned in this book with some fun, fully interactive exercises and projects. After reading a lesson in the book you can roll up your sleeves and get some hands-on coding experience at codecademy.com/tracks/teachyourself

Genres: Reference, Programming, Nonfiction, Science, Computers, Technical

448 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2000

Reviews

[Katie Rhue · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book offers a simple and easy introduction to JavaScript. I suspect, although I haven’t searched to confirm, that the book is an abbreviated version of a larger edition, and you can tell. There are explanations or mechanics that are used or that you are asked to use for the exercises that aren’t anywhere in the book. It left me scratching my head a couple times. The example in the chapter on making browser extensions isn’t usable as the page called by the Ajax command no longer exists. Overall the information here is easy enough to follow that if the reader is willing to do a bit of searching for supplemental information when something has changed or something seems to be missing from the text, the book acts as a decent quick guide to the most basic concepts of JavaScript. It should be noted that the reader should have at least a basic familiarity with HTML and CSS in order to get the most out of the book.

[John Montgomery · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's clear and concise, and the indicated web site is a great help.

[Jami · Rating 5 out of 5]

The SAMS books are straightforward, starting just where I need them to and moving along quickly. The inclusion of Greasemonkey scripts made this book jump out from all the others on the shelf.

[Brittany McCann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very comprehensive. Great layout, great examples! This was very useful as a supplemental book for my Interactive Website Class. I highly recommend for someone at a basic level of Javascript.