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JavaScript And Jquery: Interactive Front-End Web Development (2014)

by Jon Duckett(Favorite Author)

4.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1118531647 (ISBN13: 9781118531648)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Wiley

review 1: I won this book in a First Reads contest. I have never seen a textbook with such an emphasis on clarity! In some of my other reviews, I've mentioned that books have clear explanations. In this book, not only are the explanations clear, the presentation of the text is also clear. Many textbooks present information in large paragraphs of tiny text, one after the other, so that it is difficult to tell where one paragraph ends, and the next begins. This book does not do that. Instead, this book has only a few paragraphs of easy-to-read text on each page, with blank rows or columns separating the paragraphs. The book also includes tables of built-in functions/properties and explanations of what they do, in a similar manner to an API.Each page or two covers a single topic. ... moreThe topics are often accompanied by pictures, flow charts, and/or code samples. Each chapter includes a number of code samples. These code samples are mainly JavaScript, with HTML samples occasionally included in order to show the elements that the JavaScript code accesses. The samples are color-coded in order to clearly differentiate between JavaScript, comments, HTML tags, and text. Furthermore, many of the code samples in the later chapters have numbered sections, with correspondingly-numbered paragraphs describing what each section does. In addition, later samples also have numbered flowcharts. All of the code samples are downloadable from the book's website.But enough about the presentation; as for the content: This book has thirteen chapters, with the first four chapters providing an introduction to programming by using JavaScript. The other chapters include more advanced JavaScript topics, including debugging, DOM, jQuery, Ajax, pre-written JavaScript APIs, and how JavaScript works with HTML5. The author mentions that readers need to have some background with HTML and CSS in order to understand what the book is describing. The chapters have an introduction page, showing the topics that the chapter will cover, and a summary page at the end, reiterating the main points about those topics. Each chapter provides enough explanation and examples for coders to get an introductory background on these topics. What the chapters lack, however, are sources, such as other books or websites that the readers can use to learn the language and the individual topics in more depth.Naturally, this book cannot cover every part of the JavaScript language. (For instance, it does not explain the eval function, so obviously there is not enough space for many more advanced topics.) Other topics, like regular expressions, are covered in a rushed manner. However, the primary topics that the chapters promise to cover are described in depth, in a clear step-by-step manner.I would recommend this book as a good introduction to programming with JavaScript and jQuery.
review 2: Just came out but what I've seen is beautiful and clear. Be forewarned, this book doesn't come with exercises but you can find the examples online to mess around with at javascriptbook.com. It may not be as technical as your other javascript/jquery books, but it really inspires - anyone who's not a newbie should not get this with the mindset of advanced programming because it's definitely geared toward people who haven't touched code. less

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