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JavaScript: Novice to Ninja

Learn the ways of the JavaScript ninja!

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Created by

Darren Jones

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SitePoint

Last Updated

1 January 2015

Details

JavaScript has become 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.

What you will learn

  • Get to grips with the basics of JavaScript programming: functions, methods, properties, loops and logic
  • Add functionality to your apps using HTML5’s powerful APIs
  • Use Test Driven Development methodology to write more robust code

Description

Please note that there is now an updated edition of this book. JavaScript has become 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. In this step-by-step introduction to coding in JavaScript you’ll learn how to solve real-world problems, track events, design eye-catching animations, build smarter forms, and develop richer applications. Along the way, you’ll learn to develop according to best practices, including Object Oriented Programming and Test Driven Development.

Once you're done, and in need of more intermediate to advanced JavaScript content, check out Modern JavaScript, everything you need to stay up-to-date with the evolving world of JS.

Who is this for?

This book is suitable for beginner level web designers and developers. Some knowledge of HTML and CSS is assumed, but you don't need any previous programming experience.

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Darren Jones

Darren loves building web apps and coding in JavaScript, Haskell and Ruby. He is the author of Learn to Code using JavaScript, JavaScript: Novice to Ninja and Jump Start Sinatra.He is also the creator of Nanny State, a tiny alternative to React. He can be found on Twitter @daz4126.

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alvinkatojr

This is the book that made me get it! I love it!

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Mat Tavares

I absolutely loved this book. I've been using lots of jQuery and some vanilla Javascript (and even Ajax!) for DOM manipulation for over two years now, but without knowing why and how those things happened. This book explained Javascript thoroughly and easily. It's well-written, well-exemplified and explains Javascript in all environments it's used in - and even the new features to come!

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Jeffrey Fortune

Really good book! He puts a lot of information out that helped me learn JavaScript quickly. I am a Java programmer and this book made a fast and easy learning tool. I would say this book is essential to anybody trying to learn or gain good core fundamentals on JavaScript.

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Lisa Gherbi

very helpful, clear and well done. one of the best ebook on javascript i read.

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Edward Velásquez Rodríguez

Really good book as a start point, a lot of typos, on purpose? I don't know but easy to digest and self explainable.

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Hillel Garcia

Very nice book, I am an advanced JavaScript programmer and still learned a lot from it.

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