Learn JavaScript and Ajax with w3Schools

Fast, focused instruction for beginning Web developers

W3Schools.com is the number one online education source for beginning Web developers. This attractive two-color book contains concise, highly focused tutorials in the proven W3Schools instructional format, with an easy-to-use reference of JavaScript Objects and the HTML DOM included. Novice developers will quickly learn to create interactive Web pages using the most popular Web scripting language.

• W3Schools is the top Google search result for instruction on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other key Web technologies; this book presents W3Schools tutorials in an easy-to-follow format for quick learning
• Features clear examples, simple explanations, and a thorough reference section covering JavaScript Objects and the HTML DOM
• Covers statements and comments; variables, operators, and comparisons; if…then statements; pop-up boxes; events and try…catch; objects, strings, arrays, and Booleans; cookies, validation, and timing; Ajax requests and XMLHTTP requests; Ajax suggest, and more

Designed to get beginning Web developers up and running as quickly as possible, Learn JavaScript and Ajax with W3Schools presents a proven, highly focused course of instruction in an easy-to-use format.

From the Back Cover
There’s no faster, easier way to learn JavaScript and Ajax

If you want to start building interactive Web pages right away, you should begin by learning how to use JavaScript and Ajax. w3schools has perfected a straightforward tutorial approach that gives you what you need to know in manageable lessons, liberally supported with examples. You’ll find that tried-and-true format in this book, along with a detailed reference section that you will use again and again.

You will learn:

• What JavaScript is and isn’t
• How to put JavaScript into an HTML page
• JavaScript special characters and guidelines
• How to use JavaScript operators
• If… else statements and do… while loops
• All about JavaScript objects
• How to use Ajax properties
• What the Ajax XMLHttpRequest Object does

Book Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (June, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470611944
• ISBN-13: 978-0470611944