Head First JavaScript
by: Michael Morrison
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So you're ready to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages to creating dynamic web applications. You want to take your web skills to the next level. And you're finally ready to add "programmer" to the resume. It sounds like you're ready to learn the Web's hottest programming language: JavaScript. Head First JavaScript is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else's web site, and writing your own interactive web pages.
With Head First JavaScript, you learn:
Don't be intimidated if you've never written a line of code before! In typical Head First style, Head First JavaScript doesn't skip steps, and we're not interested in having you cut and paste code. You'll learn JavaScript, understand it, and have a blast along the way. So get ready... dynamic and exciting web pages are just pages away.
So you're ready to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages to creating dynamic web applications. You want to take your web skills to the next level. And you're finally ready to add "programmer" to the resume. It sounds like you're ready to learn the Web's hottest programming language: JavaScript. Head First JavaScript is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else's web site, and writing your own interactive web pages.
With Head First JavaScript, you learn:
- The basics of programming, from variables to types to looping
- How the web browser runs your code, and how you can talk to the browser with your code
- Why you'll never have to worry about casting, overloading, or polymorphism when you're writing JavaScript code
- How to use the Document Object Model to change your web pages without making your users click buttons
Don't be intimidated if you've never written a line of code before! In typical Head First style, Head First JavaScript doesn't skip steps, and we're not interested in having you cut and paste code. You'll learn JavaScript, understand it, and have a blast along the way. So get ready... dynamic and exciting web pages are just pages away.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Whet your appetite, feed your curiosity. A great introduction.
Head First JavaScript starts off by illustrating why JavaScript can be useful (adding pizzaz, interactivity, and excitement to a website), and then goes about leading the reader in experiments, exercises, and games which introduce various aspects of the language: variables, scope, objects, control statements, and events. The book also introduces debugging and very basic Ajax.
The irreverent Head First style cleverly disguises the fact that you will walk away from the book understanding ... Read More
Rating: 
- Easy with lots of examples
This book is great for people who learn by doing...there are plenty of examples and activities in this book to help you learn
Rating: - A great way to learn JavaScript
I knew a tiny bit of JavaScript going into this book, so I was a little worried it would be too elementary. And it does spend a fair amount of time covering programming basics, but it ended up being a good refresher in that regard. What really makes the book shine are the practical topics such as validating form data and debugging JavaScript. I also finally understand what the DOM is and how to use it.
Rating: 
- Head First HTML/CSS Fans Beware
I thought the J Phillips review said it all. My difference with Phillips is that I do appreciate the approach (as stated by Head First), annoying as it can be. As a satisfied customer of HF HTML/CSS, and after some frustrating attempts to learn PHP, I took what I thought was a logical step and ordered Head First Javascript and pre-ordered the soon to be released HF PHP/MYSQL. I found the first chapter fair, not good, but what might be expected with the HF method. In then I got to chapter two.
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Rating: - Head First Javascript
If you are expecting the same detailed, coherent, basics-to-detailsapproach that has been so successful in other Head First publications, forget it.It's as if this book's authorship was outsourced to someone who is unaware of what has made Head First one of the premier names in technical education.Poor overview of basic concepts, rambling examples, confusing diagrams, etc.I own at least five other Head First publications and this one it not even close to them.Spend you money elsewhere.
- Whet your appetite, feed your curiosity. A great introduction.Head First JavaScript starts off by illustrating why JavaScript can be useful (adding pizzaz, interactivity, and excitement to a website), and then goes about leading the reader in experiments, exercises, and games which introduce various aspects of the language: variables, scope, objects, control statements, and events. The book also introduces debugging and very basic Ajax.
The irreverent Head First style cleverly disguises the fact that you will walk away from the book understanding ... Read More
- Easy with lots of examplesThis book is great for people who learn by doing...there are plenty of examples and activities in this book to help you learn
- A great way to learn JavaScriptI knew a tiny bit of JavaScript going into this book, so I was a little worried it would be too elementary. And it does spend a fair amount of time covering programming basics, but it ended up being a good refresher in that regard. What really makes the book shine are the practical topics such as validating form data and debugging JavaScript. I also finally understand what the DOM is and how to use it.
- Head First HTML/CSS Fans BewareI thought the J Phillips review said it all. My difference with Phillips is that I do appreciate the approach (as stated by Head First), annoying as it can be. As a satisfied customer of HF HTML/CSS, and after some frustrating attempts to learn PHP, I took what I thought was a logical step and ordered Head First Javascript and pre-ordered the soon to be released HF PHP/MYSQL. I found the first chapter fair, not good, but what might be expected with the HF method. In then I got to chapter two.
... Read More
- Head First JavascriptIf you are expecting the same detailed, coherent, basics-to-detailsapproach that has been so successful in other Head First publications, forget it.It's as if this book's authorship was outsourced to someone who is unaware of what has made Head First one of the premier names in technical education.Poor overview of basic concepts, rambling examples, confusing diagrams, etc.I own at least five other Head First publications and this one it not even close to them.Spend you money elsewhere.
