Description

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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

About the Author

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Darren 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.