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The Joy of jQuery: A Beginner's Guide to the World's Most Popular Javascript Library
"Write less, do more"
jQuery is a programming language you can use to create cool web applications. It's free, powerful, relatively easy to set up and learn, and it has extensions and plugins available to do almost anything you could imagine. You can get started quickly, and you won't outgrow it later when you get really good at it. In my humble opinion, jQuery is well worth it the time and effort you put into learning it.
Frankly, it's just plain fun too. That's what inspired me to write this book.
Most programming books are dry and boring, and while you can't get away from all of it, you can inject some humor here and there to keep it light and fun. My first book, The Joy of PHP, is consistently the top-rated book in its category precisely because it made learning PHP fun. I hope this book will do the same for jQuery.
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.
Book Contents Include:
What is jQuery?
Get the Source Code
Getting Started with jQuery
Introduction to HTML
Introduction to CSS
jQuery Selectors
jQuery UI Widgets: Dramatic Page Enhancements
Using jQuery for Form Validation
jQuery AJAX
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Animation
jQuery is a programming language you can use to create cool web applications. It's free, powerful, relatively easy to set up and learn, and it has extensions and plugins available to do almost anything you could imagine. You can get started quickly, and you won't outgrow it later when you get really good at it. In my humble opinion, jQuery is well worth it the time and effort you put into learning it.
Frankly, it's just plain fun too. That's what inspired me to write this book.
Most programming books are dry and boring, and while you can't get away from all of it, you can inject some humor here and there to keep it light and fun. My first book, The Joy of PHP, is consistently the top-rated book in its category precisely because it made learning PHP fun. I hope this book will do the same for jQuery.
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.
Book Contents Include:
What is jQuery?
Get the Source Code
Getting Started with jQuery
Introduction to HTML
Introduction to CSS
jQuery Selectors
jQuery UI Widgets: Dramatic Page Enhancements
Using jQuery for Form Validation
jQuery AJAX
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Animation
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135 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2013
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January 25, 2014Great JQuery Overview
This provides a great introduction to JQuery or a quick review of the common elements. The author provides a tidy review of HTML and CSS to prepare readers for the concepts needed to get started using JQuery. Forbes also includes easy-to-follow code examples with follow-up line-by-line explanations. It is short and informative.
This provides a great introduction to JQuery or a quick review of the common elements. The author provides a tidy review of HTML and CSS to prepare readers for the concepts needed to get started using JQuery. Forbes also includes easy-to-follow code examples with follow-up line-by-line explanations. It is short and informative.
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