JavaScript, A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition

Overview

Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Create dynamic Web pages complete with special effects using today's leading Web development language. JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition gives you step-by-step coverage of the fundamentals, including variables, functions, operators, event handlers, objects, arrays, strings, forms, and frames. You'll also learn about more advanced techniques, including debugging and security. This hands-on guide explains how JavaScript works with XHTML Transitional and covers the new features available in JavaScript. Get started using JavaScript right away with help from this fast-paced tutorial.

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
• Ask the Expert--Q & A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
• Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
• Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
• Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Self Tests--End-of-chapter reviews to test your knowledge
• Annotated syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

Table of contents

Ch. 1. Introduction to JavaScript; Ch. 2. Placing JavaScript in an HTML File; Ch. 3. Using Variables; Ch. 4. Using Functions; Ch. 5. JavaScript Operators; Ch. 6. Conditional Statements and Loops; Ch. 7. Event Handlers; Ch. 8. Objects; Ch. 9. The Document Object; Ch. 10. Window Object; Ch. 11. JavaScript Arrays; Ch. 12. Math, Number, and Date Objects; Ch. 13. Handling Strings; Ch. 14. JavaScript and Forms; Ch. 15. JavaScript and Frames; Ch. 16. An Introduction to Advanced Techniques; Appendix A. Answers to Self Tests; Index

Biographical note

John Pollock runs two Web sites devoted to Web development technology, PageResource.com and JavaScript City.