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The smart way to learn JavaScript—one step at a time!
Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to develop applications for Windows® 8 using core JavaScript features and techniques. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
- Create JavaScript applications using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2012
- Change CSS styles and HTML elements
- Add rollovers and respond to browser events
- Use jQuery and other libraries to speed development
- Retrieve data from a server with AJAX
- Validate and provide feedback for user input on forms
Synopsis
Your hands-on guide to JavaScript fundamentals Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of JavaScript. If you have previous programming experience but are new to JavaScript, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.
Discover how to:
- Work with JavaScript syntax, variables, and data types
- Master techniques for building cross-browser programs
- Speed up and simplify app development with jQuery
- Quickly retrieve data from a server using AJAX requests
- Adapt your app for mobile devices with jQuery Mobile
- Build Windows 8 apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
About the Author
Steve Suehring has been working with the Windows Server family in a professional capacity since NT 4. Steve's experience includes Windows Server in an Internet hosting environment and a large-scale Windows Server deployment at a Fortune 1000 company. Steve has co-authored several Windows Server books and certification titles, including the Windows Server 2008 70-646 Training Kit.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- Javawhat? The where, why, and how of JavaScript
- Chapter 1: JavaScript is more than you might think
- Chapter 2: Developing in JavaScript
- Chapter 3: JavaScript syntax and statements
- Chapter 4: Working with variables and data types
- Chapter 5: Using operators and expressions
- Chapter 6: Controlling flow with conditionals and loops
- Chapter 7: Working with functions
- Chapter 8: Objects in JavaScript
- Chapter 9: The Browser Object Model
- Chapter 10: An introduction to JavaScript libraries and frameworks
- Chapter 11: An introduction to jQuery
- Integrating JavaScript into Design
- Chapter 12: The Document Object Model
- Chapter 13: JavaScript events and the browser
- Chapter 14: Working with images in JavaScript
- Chapter 15: Using JavaScript with web forms
- Chapter 16: JavaScript and CSS
- Chapter 17: jQuery effects and plug-ins
- Chapter 18: Mobile development with jQuery Mobile
- Chapter 19: Getting data into JavaScript
- AJAX and Server-Side Integration
- Chapter 20: Using AJAX
- Chapter 21: Developing for Windows 8
- JavaScript and Windows 8
- Chapter 22: Using Visual Studio for Windows 8 development
- Chapter 23: Creating a Windows app
- Answer key to exercises
- Writing JavaScript with other tools
- About the Author