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Coding with JavaScript For Dummies
Go from beginner to builder quickly with this hands-on JavaScript guide .
Coding with JavaScript For Dummies provides easy, hands-on instruction for anyone looking to learn this popular client-side language. No experience? No problem! This friendly guide starts from the very beginning and walks you through the basics, then shows you how to apply what you've learned to real projects. You'll start building right away, including web page elements and simple applications, so you can immediately see how JavaScript is used in the real world. Online exercises allow you to test your code and expand your skills, and the easy-to-follow instruction provides step-by-step guidance toward understanding the JavaScript syntax, applications, and language.
JavaScript enhances static web pages by providing dynamic elements that can adapt and react to user action. It's a need-to-know tool for aspiring web designers, but anyone can benefit from understanding this core development language. Coding with JavaScript For Dummies takes you from beginner to builder quickly as you:
Anytime a website responds to your movement around the screen, that's JavaScript. It makes websites more functional, more beautiful, and more engaging, and your site visitors will demand nothing less. If you want to build a better website, you need JavaScript. If you need JavaScript, Coding with JavaScript For Dummies gets you started off quickly and painlessly, with plenty of hands-on practice.
Coding with JavaScript For Dummies provides easy, hands-on instruction for anyone looking to learn this popular client-side language. No experience? No problem! This friendly guide starts from the very beginning and walks you through the basics, then shows you how to apply what you've learned to real projects. You'll start building right away, including web page elements and simple applications, so you can immediately see how JavaScript is used in the real world. Online exercises allow you to test your code and expand your skills, and the easy-to-follow instruction provides step-by-step guidance toward understanding the JavaScript syntax, applications, and language.
JavaScript enhances static web pages by providing dynamic elements that can adapt and react to user action. It's a need-to-know tool for aspiring web designers, but anyone can benefit from understanding this core development language. Coding with JavaScript For Dummies takes you from beginner to builder quickly as you:
Anytime a website responds to your movement around the screen, that's JavaScript. It makes websites more functional, more beautiful, and more engaging, and your site visitors will demand nothing less. If you want to build a better website, you need JavaScript. If you need JavaScript, Coding with JavaScript For Dummies gets you started off quickly and painlessly, with plenty of hands-on practice.
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360 pages, Paperback
First published May 11, 2015
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About the author
Chris Minnick
54 books9 followersChris Minnick is a prolific published author of both fiction and non-fiction.
In his non-fiction writing, Minnick specializes in finding unique and engaging ways to incorporate stories and fun into teaching beginners and kids highly technical skills such as computer programming.
In his fiction writing, his style might be best described as absurdist bizarro fictional history. He published his first novel, Pickled Punk, in 2019. His second novel, Music For Losers, will be released in 2023.
In addition to his writing, Chris is an enthusiastic amateur at something new every day.
In his non-fiction writing, Minnick specializes in finding unique and engaging ways to incorporate stories and fun into teaching beginners and kids highly technical skills such as computer programming.
In his fiction writing, his style might be best described as absurdist bizarro fictional history. He published his first novel, Pickled Punk, in 2019. His second novel, Music For Losers, will be released in 2023.
In addition to his writing, Chris is an enthusiastic amateur at something new every day.
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June 5, 2017
Guía de iniciación a JavaScript, donde las primeras lecciones son bastante sencillas, pero luego se complica rápidamente. Interesantes son los consejos logísticos de cómo programar y ordenar los códigos y la parte de los diez, con recursos disponibles sugeridos.
May 10, 2022
im currently going through a "hacker" phase (like, to the point i put on a black hoodie just to code) so i'm obsessed with JavaScript- so great book
PS i love how in "readers also enjoyed" is the Lorax-
PS i love how in "readers also enjoyed" is the Lorax-
March 31, 2019
A great reference book on coding with the Programming language javascript. An easy read and a good pace.
September 11, 2023
Outdated info but gave me more information about some topics as well as introducing me to future topics that I will study about.
June 15, 2019
I am new to coding, and I know there is much I have to learn, but from the first exercise in this book I was disappointed. The very first code they have you write is to count to ten.
I spent an hour and half going over every piece of it, and I could not get it to work. I tried it in different code editors, I typed and retyped and retyped and retyped line by line; character by character. At the end of the hour and a half, my typed code was identical, character to character, with what they write as an example, and it never worked.
After a week of trying this, going through several examples, typing my code exactly as it is written in this book has ended in a different result from what they say and claim I should be getting.
Along with this, I had noted several typos which originally I chalked up to simple editing mistakes, however this is becoming inexcusable coupled with my code results differing so greatly from what they claim I should be getting.
As my code was continually not working, I referred back to the Amazon page for this book, and began scrolling through reviews. I wish that I had done this sooner, as I found, buried, several others who complained of the typos and code not working as it should. And while one review mentions there is a website from the authors in which they go through the typos and correct them, I should not have to do this. This book should have been correct in the first place in regards to the coding examples and their results. When these mistakes were brought to the attention of the authors and publisher, that these coding examples are riddled with typos and errors, they should have re-released a corrected book.
I cannot believe I spent money buying this book, and I will not be purchasing another “Coding with ‘X’ for Dummies” since this is the caliber of work they produce.
I spent an hour and half going over every piece of it, and I could not get it to work. I tried it in different code editors, I typed and retyped and retyped and retyped line by line; character by character. At the end of the hour and a half, my typed code was identical, character to character, with what they write as an example, and it never worked.
After a week of trying this, going through several examples, typing my code exactly as it is written in this book has ended in a different result from what they say and claim I should be getting.
Along with this, I had noted several typos which originally I chalked up to simple editing mistakes, however this is becoming inexcusable coupled with my code results differing so greatly from what they claim I should be getting.
As my code was continually not working, I referred back to the Amazon page for this book, and began scrolling through reviews. I wish that I had done this sooner, as I found, buried, several others who complained of the typos and code not working as it should. And while one review mentions there is a website from the authors in which they go through the typos and correct them, I should not have to do this. This book should have been correct in the first place in regards to the coding examples and their results. When these mistakes were brought to the attention of the authors and publisher, that these coding examples are riddled with typos and errors, they should have re-released a corrected book.
I cannot believe I spent money buying this book, and I will not be purchasing another “Coding with ‘X’ for Dummies” since this is the caliber of work they produce.
October 2, 2019
Some mistakes in the code examples, old standard of js
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