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Learning jQuery 1.3 |  | Authors: Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
Creator: John Resig
Publisher: Packt Publishing
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Product Description
Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques - An introduction to jQuery that requires minimal programming experience
- Detailed solutions to specific client-side problems
- For web designers to create interactive elements for their designs
- For developers to create the best user interface for their web applications
- Packed with great examples, code, and clear explanations
- Revised and updated version of the first book to help you learn jQuery
In Detail To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. Revised and updated for version 1.3 of jQuery, this book teaches you the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features. In this book, the authors share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. The book introduces jQuery and shows how you can write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. It then guides you through CSS selectors and shows how to enhance the basic event handling mechanisms to give them a more elegant syntax. You will then learn to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and also to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. You will also learn to send and retrieve information with AJAX methods. The book will then step you through many detailed, real-world examples and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins. What you will learn from this book? This book will give you the tools you need to be on the cutting edge of the web development community. With these techniques at your disposal, you can:
- Use selectors to get anything you want from a page
- Make things happen on your page with events
- Add flair to your actions with animation effects
- Change your page on command with DOM manipulation
- Use AJAX to get the most out of server-side code
- Transform drab, static information containers into beautiful, dynamic tables
- Breathe new life into online forms
- Create dynamic shufflers, rotators, and galleries
- Get started with official jQuery plug-ins
- Customize by writing your own jQuery plug-ins
Approach This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions to each of them making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for? This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. Basic JavaScript programming knowledge is required. You will need to know the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.
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 Excellent jQuery resource. November 2, 2009
Dennis Macpherson (New Kent, VA USA)
This was my first forray into jQuery. I needed a book that would explain the details of the language, its syntax, rules, etc. Plus, I wanted sample code and implementation ideas. This book, Learning jQuery 1.3, fit the bill nicely. Yes, there are thousands of tutorials and sample code online, but every now and then it's more helpful to have a good book by your side. Highly recommended.
 A true five star October 11, 2009
I. Cherouvim (Athens, Greece)
I've been using jQuery since version 1.1. The API and a lot of Googling were enough to get me going happily so far, so I never thought that I needed to read a book about jQuery.
Half way through reading this book I changed my mind.
This book redefined the way I look at this library and client side programming in general. I highly recommend it to both experienced and newcomers to the world of client side browser programming because:
1) It's very well written and structured because it explains concepts, constructs and the API in a very natural way using immediate and clear language - better than anything I've read online.
2) It's very pragmatic and hands-on because it explains problems, workarounds and solutions in a way that correspond to the real world programming project issues we face every day. It walks you through design and implementation of real features (enhancements) for applications. After that you feel that you are capable of creating almost anything on the client side.
3) It's very modern because it respects and promotes the concepts of accessibility, progressive enhancement and separation of concerns.
I highly recommend this book to anyone building applications for the web today. A true five star.
Learning jQuery 1.3 September 26, 2009
Robert Focht (Outside Philly)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent intro to jQuery complete with downloadable code. Familiarity with DOM scripting and esp. CSS is a prerequisite. You can get by without knowing javascript nor AJAX methods.
4 star book September 24, 2009
E. Welker (Maryland, USA)
There were many things to like about this book Learning jQuery 1.3 by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg. The stand-out positive in my mind is the wealth of topics covered. Both simple and difficult concepts are included, and both are handled with ease. Good coding habits are repeatedly mentioned throughout. Subjects like progressive enhancement are encouraged, and pitfalls like memory leaks are warned against. Many real-world examples are included, as well as the full source code.
Learning jQuery 1.3 has a writing style that is very dry for a book written in a semi-conversational voice. I prefer a writing style with a little more personality to it, but acknowledge that's not for everyone.
I did have two small complaints. First, I like to see the API list out at the top of the chapters. Appendix D contains a complete reference, but I like having a list of methods to be covered at the beginning of the chapter. While I'm at it, I may mention that the "complete" reference is little more than a cheetsheet style list. Perhaps a little more would have been useful.
My second complaint is about the poor code syntax highlighting. Just for record, this has nothing to do with the content, it's just a complaint against the publisher. Take page 145, where three-quarters of the page is example code, but contains only bold line at the top showing the emphasized line. First, the bold often wasn't enough to draw the eye... especially at the beginning when a reader has to separate standard JavaScript from jQuery code. Second, I understand that the example code is included, but couldn't it have simply been excerpted here? I don't understand wasting an entire page, when much less would do.
Based on the overall quality of the book, I recommend it for jQuery beginners.
Great book and reference September 8, 2009
Karl Hendricks (Albuquerque, NM USA)
I picked up this book with no knowledge of jQuery and only minimal experience with JavaScript. After reading only the first 6 chapters, I was able to incorporate powerful jQuery features and AJAX into my web applications. The rest of the book is packed with use-case examples and includes a great reference at the end. I highly recommend this to any programmer wishing to add jQuery to their toolbox.
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