Overview
Main description
Even if you have no programming experience, you'll learn to create dynamic, interactive Web pages with help from this easy-to-use, self-teaching guide. Author and programming instructor Jim Keogh covers the basics of this leading Web development language and explains how to write cross-browser JavaScript programs in no time.
Author comments
Jim Keogh (Ridgefield Park, NJ) is on the faculty of Columbia University and Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey. He developed the e-commerce track at Columbia University. Keogh has spent decades developing applications for major Wall Street corporations and is the author of more than 60 books, including J2EE: The Complete Reference, Java Demystified, ASP.NET Demystified, Data Structures Demystified, XML Demystified, and others in the Demystified series.
Back cover copy
THE FAST AND EASY WAY TO LEARN JAVASCRIPT
If you're looking for an easy way to learn JavaScript and want to start creating interactive Web pages right away, this is the resource you need. The hands-on approach and step-by-step instructions guide you through the basics of this leading Web development tool with easy-to-understand language from start to finish.
Whether or not you have previous JavaScript experience, you’ll get an excellent foundation here, discovering how Web applications and programming languages work. Next, you’ll learn the essentials of JavaScript -- what variables, operators, expressions, statements, arrays, and strings are and what they do, then on to forms, event handlers, cookies, frames, rollovers, banners, DHTML, and more. With end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will have you creating dynamic, feature-rich Web pages in no time at all. Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, JavaScript Demystified is your shortcut to mastering JavaScript.
This one of a kind self-teaching text offers:
- An easy way to understand JavaScript
- A quiz at the end of each chapter
- A final exam at the end of the book
- No unnecessary technical jargon
- A time-saving approach
