Learning jQuery Fourth Edition: RAW

Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg

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An introduction to jQuery that requires minimal programming experience
Detailed solutions to specific client-side problems
Revised and updated version of this popular jQuery book

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 385 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : July 2013
ISBN : 178216314X
ISBN 13 : 9781782163145
Author(s) : Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
Topics and Technologies : All Books, jQuery, Open Source, RAW books

Chapter Availability

Chapter Number	Title	Availability
1	Getting Started	IN THE BOOK
2	Selecting Elements	IN THE BOOK
3	Handling Events	MAY 2013
4	Styling and Animating	MAY 2013
5	Manipulating the DOM	IN THE BOOK
6	Sending Data with Ajax	IN THE BOOK
7	Using Plugins	IN THE BOOK
8	Developing Plugins	IN THE BOOK
9	Advanced Selectors and Traversing	IN THE BOOK
10	Advanced Events	IN THE BOOK
11	Advanced Effects	MAY 2013
12	Advanced DOM Manipulation	MAY 2013
13	Advanced Ajax	MAY 2013
Appendix A	Javascript Closures	MAY 2013
Appendix B	Testing JavaScript with Qunit	MAY 2013
Appendix C	Quick Reference	MAY 2013

Jonathan Chaffer

Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There, he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.

In the opensource community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and a developer API reference.

Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"—semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.

Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.

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What you will learn from this book

Create interactive elements for your web designs
Learn how to create the best user interface for your web applications
Use selectors in a variety of ways to get anything you want from a page
Make things happen on your webpages with events
Add flair to your actions with a variety of animation effects
Discover the new features available in jQuery in this third update of this popular jQuery book

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.

LearningjQuery: Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn 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.

Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. The book will take you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.

RAW FAQ

This book is currently available as a RAW (Read As we Write) book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 20% off the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.

If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.

Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.

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Approach

We will step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques.

Who this book is 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 and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries.