JavaScript Concepts & Techniques: Programming Interactive Web Sites

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Written in a friendly, conversational style, this book contains oddles of scripting examples that students can immediately incorporate into their Web presentations. Line-by-line understand the code so that they can easily rework it to suit their own needs. The books detailed glossary and index and many useful appendices, including one on debugging and one on writing cross-browser DHTML scripts, make it an excellent JavaScript reference, as well as exceptional textbook. TO reiforce learning, each chapter concludes with a set of review questions, short exercise, and more detailed scripting exercises. Projects are included at appropriate checkpoints, JavaScript Concepts and Techniques: Programming Interactive Web Sites is the ideal textbook to teach not only the details unique to the JavaScript, but also programming concepts and skills to the first-time programmers.

Contents

Introduction

1. Introduction to JavaScript
2. Writing Your First JavaScript
3. JavaScript Data Types
4. JavaScript Expressions and Operators
5. String Methods, the Math Object, and Special Operators
6. Control Structures
7. Arrays & Dates
8. Functions
9. Events and Event Handlers
10. Frames and Windows
11. HTML Forms
12. Forms and JavaScript
13. Cookies
14. Creating Custom Objects
15. Cross-browser DHTML
16. Applied JavaScript

Appendix A: JavaScript Object Reference
Appendix B: Event Handlers
Appendix C: Reserved Words
Appendix D: Debugging JavaScript
Appendix E: Brief Core Language Reference