Thinking In JavaScript

by Greg Sidelnikov

This 17-chapter book is a brief introduction to key principles of JavaScript programming. Each chapter is dedicated to an isolated subject. The author focuses on "I wish I knew this before" type of knowledge, that will be helpful for beginners and intermediate-level programmers interested in expanding their understanding of front-end application development. jQuery briefly highlighted throughout the book and few jQuery plugin examples are provided.

This volume highlights key principles involved in JavaScript programming and should not be considered as a complete outline of JavaScript programming language. If you are passionate about learning about key insights of this programming language in a medium sized book, it may be of interest to you.

Chapters are as follows:

1. A Case for jQuery
2. Breaking Down jQuery
3. Document Object Model
4. JavaScript Boot Camp Begins
5. Code Placement
6. Statements, Primitives and Literals
7. The "this" Property
8. Function Properties
9. Object Literals
10. Anonymous Functions
11. Closures
12. Constructors
13. Prototype
14. Events
15. Initializing jQuery
16. Optimizing jQuery Selectors
17. Creating jQuery Plugins
Plugin 1: Get Class
Plugin 2: Rewriting Window Alert Box
Plugin 3: Rewriting jQuery's prev() and next()
Plugin 4: id2var

Genres: Technology

167 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 2, 2014