JavaScript by Example [Paperback]

Ellie Quigley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 29, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0131401629 | ISBN-13: 978-0131401624

Learn JavaScript now, from the world's #1 scripting instructor! Ellie Quigley's technically strong learning path deepens your skills one step at a time, through hundreds of small examples that demonstrate JavaScript's full power. You'll master every essential technique, from script setup and basic syntax through advanced DOM and CSS programming. Accompanying CD-ROM contains hundreds of code examples. Ideal for beginners and experienced scripters, Web pros and sysadmins.

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From the Back Cover

"Quigley's book strikes a perfect balance: serious, yet exceptionally accessible. I strongly recommend it to anybody learning JavaScript for the first time."
--Nick Main, software engineer

In JavaScript by Example, Ellie Quigley teaches JavaScript using the same proven approach that's made her the world's favorite scripting author and instructor. This book's unique and classroom-tested learning path contains hundreds of small, easy-to-understand examples that demonstrate the full range of JavaScript's power. One step at a time, Quigley guides new JavaScript programmers through every essential technique, from script setup to advanced DOM and CSS programming.

Coverage includes:

• Data types, literals, and variables
• Operators, control structures, and functions
• Building dialog boxes and working with JavaScript objects using the Browser object: navigator, windows frames, dynamic images, and links
• Event handling, regular expressions, and form validation
• The JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Dynamic HTML

Whether you're a first-time or long-time scripter, a Web professional or sysadmin, Ellie Quigley will help you write rock-solid JavaScripts that get the job done.

The CD-ROM contains HTML versions of Netscape's JavaScript 1.5 Core Reference and JavaScript 1.5 Core Guide PLUS all the source code and data files used in the book.

About the Author

ELLIE QUIGLEY is author of the best-selling UNIX Shells by Example, Third Edition, the classic Perl By Example, Third Edition and Linux Shells by Example, First Edition. Her proven approach has helped over 100,000 students and professionals master new scripting languages. Quigley's courses in scripting and shell programming at the U.C. Santa Cruz Extension Program and at leading technology companies including Sun Microsystems and Xilinx have become legendary throughout Silicon Valley.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (June 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131401629
• ISBN-13: 978-0131401624
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #917,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good if you are the right type of reader for it, May 18, 2005

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This review is from: JavaScript by Example (Paperback)

Wether or not this book is right for you, really depends on what you need from a Javascript text book. Armed with some basic knowledge of HTML, this was the perfect text to put me up to speed on the topic. There are many examples (as the title implies), giving you an exhaustive treatment of all topics. This treatment doesn't leave anything out, and though it would be nice to have the answers to the exercises, anything which stumps you can be solved by going over the examples again.

There are many explanations for every example given, but it's quite easy to skip around to what you need if you know some of the material already.

Excellent self-study tool.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book and well-written., September 8, 2003

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Ravichandran M. Kaushika "Ravi." (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

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5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

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5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.

This is an excellent book for beginners of Javascript. it takes simplest of the cases without boggling the minds of the readers. when I learnt javacript more than 4 years back, Ihad a hard time reading through 'verbose' books. I wish I had this book at that time.

This author has taken the time to explain the concepts in the simplests of the ways. there are adequate screen prints to highlight the results of the executed javascript code. the author explains the document object model clearly for the benefit of the beginners and also explains different ways of identifying the items in the page.

This is an excellent reference book for intermediate javascript programmers adn this book has found a place in my reference shelf and I will be glad to recommend this book to anybody interested in learning Javascript.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy coding, August 11, 2003

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W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JavaScript by Example (Paperback)

JavaScript is most often used in a browser on the client side. It is a scripting language that can make vanilla HTML pages more interactive. By now it, like HTML, is very stable. And if you design web pages, it is a good addition to your skill set. Being stable and popular means that there is no shortage of books on it. So on what basis should you prefer this book?

Well, it takes its title very literally. The pedagogy really does emphasise copious examples. In a typical chapter, the examples take up over half the space. Plus each chapter includes a problem set. Yay! You need to learn by doing. Yet so many computer books omit this. Granted, some topics require so many parts to interoperate that writing problems is nontrivial. But to test JavaScript code, all you need is a browser, text editor and a web server. These days, all computers have the first two items. And, in the context of you wanting to learn JavaScript, you DO have a web server that you can load files onto, don't you?

My only quibble is that I wish there were more problems in each chapter. This could take up very little extra room, say a page per chapter. But it would roughly triple the number of problems, and give the reader an even more exhaustive exploration of the topics.