JavaScript Essential Training [DVD-ROM]

Dori Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 2007

JavaScript Essential Training takes viewers through the process of using JavaScript to fully realize a site's potential, from understanding the basics to creating real-world samples. Instructor Dori Smith explains how to work with objects, create buttons and forms that interact with site visitors, make rollovers, menus, slideshows, and countdowns, and take advantage of other practical applications. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Understanding objects
• Writing a first script
• Interacting with site visitors
• Understanding language essentials
• Creating rollovers and slideshows
• Building smarter forms
• Handling events
• Working with cookies
• Working with dates and times
• Manipulating the DOM

Duration: 7 hours
On 1 CD-ROM

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Each lynda.com CD/DVD course offers hours of training movies that you watch on your computer. The movies are recorded in pixel-perfect quality, and include the authors' narration and movements as they teach the subject matter. Courses include the same project files that the instructors use, so you can follow along at your own pace. lynda.com tutorials are great for visual learners and people who like to learn by doing. Topics include software applications, workflow optimization, tips and techniques, and much more. Play, fast-forward, and rewind for easy learning.

About the Author

Dori Smith is the co-author of several best-selling books on JavaScript and Dreamweaver, and a contributor to numerous tech industry magazines, both online and in print. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is the publisher and List Mom for the Wise-Women web community. She is on the steering committee for the Web Standards Project, is a co-lead of the DOM Scripting Task Force, and is a member of the Adobe and Microsoft Task Forces.

Dori contributes to the long-running Backup Brain blog. She can also be found online at her personal site, dori.com.

Product Details

• DVD-ROM
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc (September 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596713801
• ISBN-13: 978-1596713802
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,340,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author, "JavaScript Essential Training," "Ajax Essential Training," and "Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide".

Co-author, "JavaScript and Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition," "Dreamweaver CS5: Visual QuickStart Guide," "Styling Web Pages With CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide," and "Mac OS X Unwired," all with Tom Negrino

Founder, List Mom, and Publisher: WiseWomen's Web, at http://wise-women.org.

Editor, Backup Brain Weblog, at http://www.backupbrain.com.

Co-founder, Web Standards Project

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to javascript, October 14, 2007

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B. Walter "brent" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JavaScript Essential Training (DVD-ROM)

If you're new to programming and javascript, this is a great resource for getting you started. The video keeps the concepts and examples simple without dumming anything down, which is extreemly helpful. I found the personal insights by Dori especially enlightening. They provided good context for how javascript fits into the web development world.

2 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Presentation is not so professional, September 28, 2008

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Charlie Brown (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaScript Essential Training (DVD-ROM)

The author needs to use some professional looking slides.
She is explaining using a text editor (and the html page for the scripts) during the entire training session. It's like a college lecture half century ago. If you are lecturing Latin grammar using this method this may be OK (but I'm sure that even many modern Latin teachers will use nice PowerPoint slides). It's irony that she uses an outdated teaching method in teaching modern technology. I was going to give only 1 star, but if you stick to (or should I say, endure) her lecture, at least she makes sense. If she adds well-organized presentation slides in her future version, the rate could be four or five stars (depending on the quality of the slides). $20-$30 would have been the right price. For $100, I don't think that it's worth. I think that a well-written book is much better. Not recommended for 2007 version.