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jQuery: Novice to Ninja: New Kicks And Tricks

Simple, fast, versatile — JavaScript the way it should be!

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average rating (33 votes)

Created by

Earle Castledine, Craig Sharkie

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Last Updated

23 February 2012

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jQuery: Novice to Ninja: New Kicks And Tricks (2nd Edition) is your fast track to mastering jQuery—the all-conquering JavaScript framework. Used by over half the world’s top 10,000 websites, jQuery is the fastest, most efficient way to add killer functionality to your site.

What you will learn

* Learn the fundamentals of jQuery, adding interactivity and animation to your websites * Using plugins, UI widgets, and the brand new jQuery Mobile framework * Effortlessly control any page element with powerful jQuery selectors * Construct impressive animations with just a few lines of code * Tap the power of jQuery UI to create complex menus, tooltips, and panels * Add intelligent interactive forms and elegant drop-down menus * Build a complete working application, StarTrackr!, as you learn

Description

jQuery: Novice to Ninja: New Kicks And Tricks (2nd Edition) is your fast track to mastering jQuery—the all-conquering JavaScript framework. Used by over half the world’s top 10,000 websites, jQuery is the fastest, most efficient way to add killer functionality to your site. Now in its second edition, you'll be taken through the fundamentals of jQuery, adding interactivity and animation to your websites. Then, you'll be taken through more sophisticated techniques, including plugins, UI widgets, and the brand new jQuery mobile framework.

Who is this for?

If you’re a front-end Designer looking to add a dash of cool interactivity to your sites, and you’ve heard all the buzz about jQuery and want to find out what the fuss is about, this book will put you on the right track. If you’ve dabbled with JavaScript, but been frustrated by the complexity of many seemingly simple tasks, we’ll show you how jQuery can help you. You should already have intermediate to advanced HTML and CSS skills, as jQuery uses CSS-style selectors to zero in on page elements. Some rudimentary programming knowledge will be helpful to have, as jQuery—despite its clever abstractions—is still based on JavaScript.

Creators

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Earle Castledine

Earle Castledine—JavaScript flâneur and internet flibbertigibbet—is back! By day it’s serious business while Earle steers the ship as lead engineer at hot startups. By night his attention turns to the world of weird art and wonderful game design.
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Craig Sharkie

Craig was once happy to call himself a developer, speaker, author, and advocate. Since then, he’s added husband, JS meet founder, father, and JSConf organizer to the list. Now he is twice - and often thrice - happy
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Reviews

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Yassine Temtam

I like this book, it gives you the fundamentals in an easy and concise way with a package of practical exemples. It's full of very useful and intuitive details that make Javascript programming easy to learn easy to practice.

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tom42

Excellent starter for me. (I'm only about 10% through it so far).

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Alejandro Cerro

I've been using JQuery for some time, but since I had learned it as I went along there were gaps in my knowledge. This book is great for filling in those gaps and taking my skills further.

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admin33

I do a lot of back end development for others and jQuery is in more and more of my projects. I have done quite a bit with jQuery in the past but never really "got" it. This book was an eye opener. Now I "get" it and has opened a whole new set of doors. Thank You. Lorenww

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Russ LeCLaire

One of the best of your courses to date. I've always been hesitant about JavaScript and jQuery but this course laid out the concepts and gave examples that were easy to understand. Since I use ASP.Net with master pages it adds another layer of complexity but I feel confidant that I can now do some client side features that were not possible without the knowledge presented in this course.

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orlin chirinos

simple to install the link to the website and to the server. simple to understand examples and to modify. exactly what i was looking for. peace.

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