Product Description

Step-by-step instruction teaches beginning JavaScript programmers and Web designers to create windows, display moving text, and generate sound or other multimedia elements with ease. Uses the successful Beginner’s Guide teaching system, which countless new users have praised for giving them a solid foundation in technology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #303992 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

From the Back Cover

Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Create dynamic and inviting Web pages with help from this friendly, step-by-step guidebook. Through a logical sequence of tutorials, you'll learn the basics of the leading Web development language. Author John Pollock provides easy-to-understand coverage of the essentials--variables, tags, event handlers, objects, frames, and more--that will help you program your Web site to react to a viewers' actions or surprise them with special effects. This proven teaching tool also contains screen shots and plenty of sample code to assist you with real-world programming tasks. Begin using JavaScript right away and add interactivity to your site in no time!

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Modules--Each concept is divided into logically organized modules (chapters), ideal for self-paced learning
• Critical Skills--Each module opens with the specific skills covered in the module
• Mastery Checks--End-of-module reviews test knowledge using short-answer, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank questions
• Ask the Experts--Q&A sections throughout are filled with bonus information and helpful tips
• Progress Checks--Quick self-assessment sections check your progress
• Projects--Practical exercises show how to apply the critical skills learned in each module
• Annotated Syntax--Example code annotated with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

About the author: John Pollock has been working with JavaScript and other Web development tools for more than seven years. He is a technical writer and runs two Web sites devoted to Web development technology.

About the Author
John Pollock (Huntsville, TX) is a university student in Huntsville, Texas. He has been working with JavaScript and other Web development tools for more than 5 years. Her runs two Web sites devoted to Web development technology.

Customer Reviews

Easy, detailed but I need it faster and right to the point!
This books gives you the basics of the basics of Javascript. Having read read more than a 100 pages of it, I'm still wondering why am I learning this. Why would I want to know how to write basic web pages in JavaScript?? If you're an ambitious web developer, you'll need something that goes right to the point - for me, I prefer stuff like ''this is how we do it'', I just need JS to add functionality and interactivity to my websites, which is supposed to be the main job of JS.

This book is a great reference to teach you every single comma and semicolon and what they're used to - if you're proficient in XHTML/CSS, you won't need this. I give it 4 stars as it's a very detailed book for newbies, and may for some establish a very solid understanding of JS scribble - but for me it's too much of superfluous details.

A great book for the beginner
I am a total beginner myself to the Javascript language and I must say I found this book very useful and easy to follow.
It's written in as basic english as possible. It's been written in a logical order so you're best to read from beginning to end.
I've had this book for 2 days now and am already nearly half way through but do take your time. It just goes to show that I'm enjoying this book!
Overall, this book was indeed worth every penny!