Building Facebook Applications For Dummies 1st Edition by Richard Wagner (PDF)

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There’s no doubt about it — Facebook is cool. Along with users who want to interact with friends, businesses are using Facebook as a marketing and networking tool. And if you’re a Web developer, you probably know there’s a demand for Facebook applications. If you have some basic knowledge of Web client technology, such as HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, and know how to use a Web programming language, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is just what you need to start building apps for Facebook. This friendly guide helps you create applications to reach Facebook’s huge audience, so you can enlarge your list of friends, introduce people to your product or service, or network with other business professionals. You’ll find out how to:Work with the Facebook APIBuild applications that take advantage of Facebook’s News Feed and WallMigrate existing Web applications to FacebookCreate mobile apps for FacebookUse Facebook’s markup and query languagesGet your app noticed by Facebook usersA handy companion Web site includes code samples, starter applications, and other useful information about building Facebook apps. Whether you want to create applications for business purposes or just for fun, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is the fun and easy way to get started.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review “Wagner gives a fun and easy way to get started building applications for this vast horde of potential buyers.” (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March) From the Back Cover Use the Facebook Platform to create exciting appsBuild applications that take advantage of Facebook’s News Feed and WallWith Facebook, social networking sites have grown up. Now they’re an important marketing tool as well as being just plain fun. This friendly book helps you create applications to reach Facebook’s huge audience, so you can enlarge your list of friends, introduce people to your product or service, or network with other business professionals.Discover how to:Work with the Facebook APIMigrate existing Web applications to FacebookCreate mobile apps for FacebookGet your app noticed by Facebook usersUse Facebook’s markup and query languages About the Author Richard Wagner is an experienced Web designer and developer as well as author of several Web-related books. These books include Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming, XSLT For Dummies, Creating Web Pages All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, XML All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Web Design Before & After Makeovers, and JavaScript Unleashed (1st, 2nd ed.). Before moving into full-time authoring, Richard was vice president of product development at NetObjects. He was also inventor and chief architect of the award-winning NetObjects ScriptBuilder. A versatile author with a wide range of interests, he is also author of The Myth of Happiness and C.S. Lewis & Narnia For Dummies. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐The is the best book for Building Facebook Apps I have found so far, yet it won’t help you if you plan to integrate Flash as the app to display profiles, friends, etc. In fact, I have yet to find a book that helps you with that. Fortunately the FB Dev forums are very helpful and there are several good online sources that cover pretty much everything you can think of doing in FB, including Flash integration. This book is a good reference and doe sit a decent job showing how to build your first basic app.

⭐I’ve been trying to learn about Facebook both from a user’s perspective and that of a developer. Why? Because any service with 200 million users is something I will run into in my work – and it looks like fun. I’ve read several books on Facebook application development and this is the best I’ve seen so far. (I still have several to go, so my opinion may change.) Author Richard Wagner takes a matter of fact approach and begins with the essentials, something other books oddly fail to do. One immediate standout feature is Wagner’s diagramming and explaining Facebook’s application architecture. Several other books omit this entirely or give it short shrift. Wagner diagrams it plainly and clearly and it helps. Wagner deliberately restricts the scope of his book, again in contrast to other authors who try to include something on every language usable with Facebook. I prefer Wagner’s “small steps” first approach. It is much easier to deal with and offers more depth, I think. He starts off with building a very simple Facebook application and then moves into specific discussions of the Facebook API, FBTML, FQL and FJS. Don’t recognize these terms? Don’t worry: Wagner explains them thoroughly in easily understandable language with plenty of examples and illustrations. There’s as lot more and all of it is good. But there is a drawback: Facebook is in a constant state of development and things change, sometimes massively. That happened recently and has many people upset for a variety of reasons. In any event, some of the thins in this book are obsolete. That doesn’t detract from its overall usefulness, though. This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand the Facebook application development process.Jerry

⭐This is an excellent book to start developing facebook applications.It is easy to understand and it gives just what you need to do some basic applications. This book gives you an idea of how facebook apps are developed and how you can add stuff to you basic app if you have already started.The only disadvantage is that it does not cover the new facebook framework, so you will have to develop with the old one.

⭐I bought this for my Kindle. Facebook standards move quickly and I couldn’t use anything in the book. A complete waste of money.

⭐It’s a good book, although I assume it is out of date as the facebook application setup interface is completely different to the one described.Do not expect to be able to build applications by following the instructions in this book.Disappointing.

⭐Out of date and too complicated for my needs.

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