Beginners, get ready to develop with JavaScript!

Getting Started with JavaScript

written by Thomas Theis

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456 pages, 2025, Print edition paperback
ISBN 978-1-4932-2583-5 456 pages, 2025
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ISBN 978-1-4932-2585-9

New to programming and JavaScript? Look no further! With this beginner’s guide, learn the language ABCs and start developing applications. Walk through the programming basics: branches, functions, methods, objects, and more. Then create forms and events; use the Document Object Model (DOM); and work with large data sets, processing strings, mathematics, time, and other data structures. Design your web and mobile applications using tools like Ajax, CSS, jQuery, and Onsen UI. Follow code examples and expert tips, and you’ll be developing in no time!

Get to know the basics of JavaScript development, from HTML to jQuery
Learn to create dynamic web and mobile applications by working with key language features such as objects, forms, events, and the DOM
Download more than 200 complete sample programs to use as project templates

About the Book About the E-book 500 pages, paperback. Reference book format 7 x 10 in. Printed black and white on 50# offset paper from sustainable sources. Reader-friendly serif font (TheAntiquaB 9.5 Pt.). One-column layout. E-book in full color. PDF (5.8 MB) and EPUB (2.2 MB) files for download, DRM-free with personalized digital watermark. Copy and paste, bookmarks, and print-out permitted. Table of contents, in-text references, and index fully linked. Including online book edition in dedicated reader application.

In this book, you’ll learn about:

Language Basics

Master the building blocks of JavaScript programming. From performing calculations to finding and avoiding errors, you’ll learn the essential skills you need for web application development.
JavaScript in Practice

Start developing with JavaScript! Learn how to work with standard and custom objects, forms and events, and the DOM. Design with CSS, add 2D and 3D graphics with SVG and Three.js, simplify your tasks with jQuery, and much more!
Example Exercises

Reinforce your knowledge with programming exercises. For each core concept, follow along with code examples that are available for download. Get insight into professional development with JavaScript through sample projects!

Highlights include:

Programming basics
Web application development
Forms and events
Document Object Model (DOM)
Ajax
XML and JSON
CSS and HTML properties
Graphics and animations
jQuery
Mobile apps with Onsen UI
Media files
Example projects

Thomas Theis has more than 40 years of experience as a software developer and as an IT lecturer. He holds a graduate degree in computer engineering.

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Getting Started with JavaScript

In this book, you’ll learn about:

Language Basics

JavaScript in Practice

Example Exercises

Highlights include:

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