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The bestselling JavaScript guide, updated with current features and best practices

Beginning JavaScript 5th Edition shows you how to work effectively with JavaScript frameworks, functions, and modern browsers, and teaches more effective coding practices using HTML5. This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect the way JavaScript is most commonly used today, introducing you to the latest tools and techniques available to JavaScript developers. Coverage includes modern coding practices using HTML5 markup, the JSON data format, DOM APIs, the jQuery framework, and more. Exercises with solutions provide plenty of opportunity to practice, and the companion website offers downloadable code for all examples given in the book.

  • Learn JavaScript using the most up to date coding style
  • Understand JSON, functions, events, and feature detection
  • Utilize the new HTML5 elements and the related API
  • Explore new features including geolocation, local storage, and more

JavaScript has shaped the Web from a passive medium into one that is rich, dynamic, and interactive. No matter the technology on the server side, it's JavaScript that makes it come alive in the browser. To learn JavaScript the way it's used today, Beginning JavaScript, 5th Edition is your concise guide.

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Learn the latest features and create powerful web apps with JavaScript

JavaScript has shaped the Web from a passive medium into one that is rich, dynamic, and interactive. With this comprehensive beginner's guide, you'll learn JavaScript the way it's most commonly used today--with the latest tools and most up-to-date techniques available so you can start creating dynamic web apps. You'll discover how to work effectively with JavaScript frameworks, functions, and modern browsers, and how to employ the most effective coding practices using HTML5.

Beginning JavaScript, 5th Edition:

  • Presents JavaScript using the most up-to-date coding style
  • Makes it easy to understand JSON, functions, events, and feature detection
  • Teaches the fundamentals of finding, creating, and manipulating elements in the page
  • Utilizes new HTML5 elements and the related API
  • Uncovers tips for new features, including geolocation, local storage, and more
  • Demonstrates how to use JavaScript to make HTTP requests to the web server (Ajax)
  • Covers common mistakes, debugging, and error handling
  • Features helpful exercises with solutions that provide plenty of opportunity to practice, while the companion website offers downloadable code for all examples given in the book

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Visit us at wrox.com where you have access to free code samples, Programmer to Programmer forums, and discussions on the latest happenings in the industry.

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  • Title Beginning JavaScript
  • Author Jeremy McPeak
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: fifth
  • Pages 768
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wrox Press
  • Publication date 2015-03-09
  • Features Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781118903339 / 1118903331
  • Weight 2.7 lbs (1.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 18.54 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
  • Category Computers - Languages / Programming
  • Library of Congress subjects Web servers, World Wide Web
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014958440
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.276

About the author

About the authors

Jeremy McPeak is a professional programmer and analyst who works extensively with JavaScript and C#. He coauthored both of the previous editions of Beginning JavaScript, and authored the well-reviewed JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer. He contributes to the online, web-centric learning site Tuts+ Code, covering topics such as JavaScript, C#, and the .NET Framework.

Paul Wilton owns his own company, providing online booking systems to vacation property owners, which is largely developed using JavaScript.

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