JavaScript Goodies

JavaScript Goodies

by JoeBurnsPh.D. (Author), Andree Growney (Author)

Synopsis

JavaScript Goodies, Second Edition is based on the most popular JavaScript tutorials at HTMLGoodies.com. It starts with the basics, including JavaScript syntax and common errors readers may encounter. It then continues with detailed lessons covering * Enabling mouse events * Using variables * Working with math operators * Writing loops Later chapters explain complex add-ons, including clocks and counters, passwords, and animation. The book finishes with a series of useful appendices readers can refer to for a quick reference of basic JavaScript features and commands.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 504
Edition: 2
Publisher: QUE
Published: 19 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0789726122
ISBN 13: 9780789726124
Book Overview:

More than 250,000 people have learned JavaScript from Joe Burns and his HTML Goodies Web site. HTMLGoodies.com now serves nearly 2 million page views each week, almost double the views from 1999, when the first edition of JavaScript Goodies was published. This updated edition of the book covers the latest trends and JavaScript techniques, including dozens of new tutorials.


Author Bio

Joe Burns, Ph.D. is a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Web design and Internet-mediated communication. Joe is the Webmaster of HTML Goodies (http://www.htmlgoodies.com), a site devoted to teaching HTML and Web design that serves up close to seven million pages every month to almost a half-million individual readers. He is also an Internet consultant for Internet.com. Joe first became interested in the Internet while studying for his Ph.D. at Bowling Green State University. There he created HTML Goodies and first began teaching computer classes. Joe is currently working on the viability of delivering university-level classes over the Internet and the effect of teaching in a Web-based environment. Joe lives in Hammond, Louisiana, with his wife Tammy, and two cats, Chloe and Mardi.

Andree Growney is currently a software engineer at TERC, a nonprofit educational research and development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she does Internet applications development. She has been working with computers for more than 20 years. A former programmer and systems analyst, she became infatuated with the Web early in its development. She was formerly the Webmaster at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where she also taught client/server and other database-to-Web?related courses.