JavaScript, A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition

Essential Skills—Made Easy!

Create dynamic Web pages complete with special effects using today's leading Web development language. JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition gives you step-by-step coverage of the fundamentals, including variables, functions, operators, event handlers, objects, arrays, strings, forms, and frames. You'll also learn about more advanced techniques, including debugging and security. This hands-on guide explains how JavaScript works with XHTML Transitional and covers the new features available in JavaScript. Get started using JavaScript right away with help from this fast-paced tutorial.

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Key Skills & Concepts—Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
• Ask the Expert—Q & A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
• Try This—Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
• Notes—Extra information related to the topic being covered
• Tips—Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Self Tests—End-of-chapter reviews to test your knowledge
• Annotated syntax—Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

Essential Skills—Made Easy!

Create dynamic Web pages complete with special effects using today's leading Web development language. JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition gives you step-by-step coverage of the fundamentals, including variables, functions, operators, event handlers, objects, arrays, strings, forms, and frames. You'll also learn about more advanced techniques, including debugging and security. This hands-on guide explains how JavaScript works with XHTML Transitional and covers the new features available in JavaScript. Get started using JavaScript right away with help from this fast-paced tutorial.

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Key Skills & Concepts—Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter

• Ask the Expert—Q & A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips

• Try This—Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills

• Notes—Extra information related to the topic being covered

• Tips—Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Self Tests—End-of-chapter reviews to test your knowledge

• Annotated syntax—Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

John Pollock runs two Web sites devoted to Web development technology, PageResource.com and JavaScript City.