Beginning Javascript, 3nd Edition

JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to enhance static web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content.

Suitable for learning basic programming for Web browsers, Beginning JavaScript is a patient, introductory tutorial on writing scripts successfully. It teaches you how to create client-side scripts (including full coverage of fundamentals like variables and flow control, plus plenty of screen shots.)

Teaching programming basics from the ground up, this book helps even those with no prior programming knowledge learn JavaScript and use this knowledge for practical purposes on their Web sites to create interesting, useful, and dynamic sites. The primary focus is on practical application of JavaScript to Web site creation. The ultimate aim is that a reader having finished the book should be able to go it alone and create their own scripts and move forward and learn more advanced techniques. They will have a very broad base of knowledge of JavaScript and its application to Web development.

With this up-to-date guide, you’ll find everything you need to know in order to develop interactive, robust, and personalized pages using JavaScript. It takes you step by step through this powerful scripting language so you can begin enhancing your site right away and increase visits. You’ll learn how to take advantage of native JavaScript objects, manipulate objects that are available to you in the latest browsers, use cookies, and jazz up your web pages with Dynamic HTML.

With this up-to-date guide, you’ll find everything you need to know in order to develop interactive, robust, and personalized pages using JavaScript. It takes you step by step through this powerful scripting language so you can begin enhancing your site right away and increase visits. You’ll learn how to take advantage of native JavaScript objects, manipulate objects that are available to you in the latest browsers, use cookies, and jazz up your web pages with Dynamic HTML.

JavaScript is the definitive language for making the Web a dynamic, rich, interactive medium. This guide to JavaScript builds on the success of previous editions and introduces you to many new advances in JavaScript development. The reorganization of the chapters helps streamline your learning process while new examples provide you with updated JavaScript programming techniques.