Product Description

Everything you need to learn JavaScript from Scratch! Packed with full-color examples, "Simply JavaScript" is a step-by-step introduction to programming in JavaScript the right way. Learn how easy it is to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events (such as mouse clicks and key strokes), and design eye-catching animations. Then move into more powerful techniques using the DOM and Ajax. Learn JavaScript's built-in functions, methods, and properties. Easily integrate JavaScript in your web site. Use JavaScript to validate form entries and interact with your users. Understand how to respond to user events. Create animations that bring your web site to life. Start programming using the DOM and Ajax. Unlike other JavaScript books, modern best practices such as progressive enhancement, accessibility and unobtrusive scripting are used from the very beginning. All the code in the book is also cross-browser compatible and downloadable for free, so you can get started instantly!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96452 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

About the Author
Kevin Yank is a world-renowned leader in web development. When not writing best sellers, Kevin is the Technical Director of sitepoint.com and editor of the popular SitePoint Tech Times newsletter.

Cameron Adams is an author of multiple web development books and is often referred to as a "Web Technologist." In addition to his extensive JavaScript experience, Cameron's passions extend to CSS, PHP, and graphic design.

Customer Reviews

Lives up to its subtitle...
The books subtitle - Everything you need to learn JavaScript from scratch - is correct. Though JS is a difficult subject, made all the more confusing by lots of bad, incorrect and incompatible code around the internet, this book manages to cut through the clutter and teach best practices, stanards, cross-browser compatability, and accessibility.

If you're been copying & pasting scripts for use on your website, this book will give you a very solid foundation in being able to understand that you're using and being able to modify and troubleshoot the scripts.

This book covers all the basics, from JavaScripts role in the three layers of the web, to the basics of statements, comments, variables and different variable types, conditions and loops, functions, and objects. Testing and debugging are covered in greath depth in Chapter 6, which really helps put things into context for beginners.

Each chapter also discusses the various JavaScript libraries, such as Dojo, and how they can be applied for various uses.

Even though I began the book with very little JS knowledge, the friendly and informal tone of the author, and the step by step guidance, really made sense to me. Overall, I would think this book will appeal to newbie JavaScript programmers. I highly recommend it.

Good but not for beginners
The first three chapters of this book are brilliant for someone trying to learn JavaScript, but beyond that it confuses the living daylights out of you. The style of writing is good and the good practices shown are laudable but for a newbie code explanation falls short in a lot of places. I would have given this book at least 4 stars but upon going through it again i realised that for a beginner it can be confusing.

Great Book, Great Advice, But Not For Beginners
This is a very good introduction to Javascript and good Javascript coding practices. The examples are useful and the simple code library provided is also very useful. However if you are a beginner then you should really have a look at a simpler book. The only reason I have not given it five stars is that the marketing of the book leads one to think that it is great for absolute beginners. The ideal audience for this book is someone who has dabbled with Javascript and now wants to take a more professional and structured approach.