JavaScript: Novice to Ninja

JavaScript is a must-have skill for all web developers. JavaScript: Novice to Ninja is a fun, practical, and comprehensive guide to the modern usage of this deceptively powerful language. Comprehensively updated to cover ECMAScript 6 and modern JavaScript development, the second edition of this step-by-step introduction to coding in JavaScript will show you how to to solve real-world problems, design eye-catching animations, build smarter forms, and develop richer applications.

• Learn the basics of JavaScript programming: functions, methods, properties, loops and logic
• Use events to track user interactions
• Build smarter web forms that improve the user experience
• Work with the document object model (DOM) and Ajax to dynamicall update your pages
• Add functionality to your apps using HTML5’s powerful APIs
• Use Test Driven Development methodology to write more robust code
• Build a complete, working JavaScript quiz app from scratch

Contents

Chapter 1: Hello, JavaScript

Chapter 2: Programming Basics

Chapter 3: Arrays, Logic, and Loops

Chapter 4: Functions

Chapter 5: Objects

Chapter 6: The Document Object Model

Chapter 7: Events

Chapter 8: Forms

Chapter 9: The Window Object

Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging

Chapter 11: Further Functions

Chapter 12: Object-Oriented Programming in

Chapter 13: Ajax

Chapter 14: HTML5 APIs

Chapter 15: Modern JavaScript Development

Chapter 16: Next Steps

Who Should Read This Book

The aim of this book is to introduce you to programming using the JavaScript language, eventually helping you to develop into a JavaScript ninja. This book is suitable for beginner-level web designers and developers. Some knowledge of HTML and CSS is assumed, but no previous programming experience is necessary.

About the Author

Darren Jones started using Sinatra in 2009 after falling in love with the direct simplicity it offers. At the start of 2010 he started the I Did It My Way blog, detailing his quest to master Sinatra, and at the end of that year used Sinatra to build the Cards in the Cloud website. Darren also writes Sinatra tutorials for RubySource.