JavaScript & Ajax for Dummies 1st Edition by Andy Harris (PDF)

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Learn to use these powerful tools together and build Web sites that workIf you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site’s visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you’re new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With easy-to-understand steps and an emphasis on free tools, you’ll be able to jump right into building a site using the same techniques as the pros.Down to basics — learn your way around JavaScript and choose an editor and test browserManage complexity — use functions, arrays, and objects to create more sophisticated programsPage magic — discover how to control what happens on your pages, animate objects, and put pages in motionGet beautiful — Use the jQuery User Interface library to add sliders, tabbed interfaces, and custom dialogs to a siteCome clean with AJAX — build AJAX requests into your programs, use jQuery, and work with AJAX dataOpen the book and find:How to choose a test browserHow to discuss string concatenation with a straight faceTips for debugging your codeHow to add useful information to a dropdown listWhy AJAX connections should be asynchronousThe exciting possibilities of the jQuery libraryHow to use the Aptana editorOnline resources for JavaScript programmers

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Andy Harris is a lecturer in computer science at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. He was instrumental in developing the university’s certificate program in applied computer science and has taught courses in Web development as well as several programming languages.

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

⭐If you are pursing a computer science degree and want to learn some basic front end development skills you can showcase to your class mates or friends then you should get this book! My recommendation is get this one, the css and PHP for dummies if you are going into web development, they helped me out all the time. If your stick troubleshooting some code you made these are great to turn to for ideas on the issues.

⭐This book is a nice intro to the concepts, along with the easy-to-read style that makes the Dummies books so much fun. The examples are easy to follow and work when you do them, which is always a plus! Reading it on the Kindle DX didn’t lose any of the value, either, since the illustrations are grayscale. If you are just starting out with either of these technologies, you couldn’t do better than start here.

⭐This book is very easy to understand and covers various software you can download for free to use javascript, AJAX and jQuery nodes. It even goes into the GUI for making jQuery even more powerful. Not too much time is wasted on .CSS files; it quickly builds into how to use the .CSS functions of jQueery.

⭐Great review, but I wouldn’t to learn it new from this book

⭐Good helpful book with examples. I recommend it to everyone who wants to learn Ajax/jquery or javascript. I have used it for my work.

⭐Andy Harris is great at explaining everything from AJAX to MySQL. Excellent book which pulls together all the basic tenets of Javascript and AJAX.

⭐better books

⭐As you scroll through the HTML related books, you will notice this same review is posted for several books proportioning to provide information in a user friendly format on building and maintaining a web site. This is because all of these books are equally useless.My ISP removed the FrontPage web bots required to use many of the features needed to create and publish web pages using FP, particularly those that were surveys that stored form data for later download and statistical analysis. MY ISP had no choice as support for these extensions/web bots was no longer available. MicroSoft has provided Expression Web 4 as a free download which is a tremendous help in page layout.Many of the functions which involved a few clicks in FrontPage now require dozens of lines of Javascript code, which is a new language, e. g. page last updated. To include even simple items such as a visitor counter requires you to learn learn yet another language PHP, download a script, and upload it to your ISP. Range checking and not accepting the first item of pull down menus requires yet more massive php scripts.Yet another language must be learned [SQL] in order to upload and store form data.No though is ever given to building on what most of us know, for example including a downloadable php script to write out the form data as a .csv or even better an .xls file for download using programs we are familiar with, and their add-ins such as multiple regression packages.Data transfer is easily implemented from server to local computer using FTP such as filezilla, with no need for esoteric data manipulation.The examples are all atrocious, and are misleading because many of the details have been omitted, such as the need to enclose select test values in quotes if the value being evaluated is alphanumeric even if the test value is numeric, I. e. “1” works, but 1 doesn’t. [several hours needed to find this problem]. The scope of variables [global/local] in JS is not clear. No where is there a complete listing of functions with all the toggles and options, and the authors jump from topic to topic.The authors and their editors/publishers would be well advised to review the paper manual for MS Quick Basic to see how an instruction manual should be written.I have purchased half a dozen books from Amazon and other sources, including a JS tome from MicroSoft, and none are any better than “trial and error” assisted with google searches in getting a FP website back up without FP.

⭐An essential intro to JavaScript and Ajax. It would make a decent first programming book for somebody beginning not a second or reference book.Great book with cases. I prescribe it to everybody who needs to learn Ajax/jquery or javascript from scratch.

⭐Too technical for a beginner in JavaScript! I would have preferred more simple examples rather than un-useful anecdotes. Never used it for Ajax I’m afraid… however, I quickly gave up on the JavaScript part.

⭐Okay book for beginners

⭐Brought this reference book for my daughter, who is using it for her Digital Media degree. She is very happy with it!

⭐Great book.. amazing read and very useful for new WEB/CODOVA and mobile development.The book takes you step by step into gaining confidence into JavaScript and more importantly AJAX and JQuery.

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