Get Started Fast with Modern JavaScript Web Development! With the arrival of HTML5, jQuery, and Ajax, JavaScript web development skills are more valuable than ever! This complete, hands-on JavaScript tutorial covers everything you need to know now. Using line-by-line code walkthroughs and end-of-chapter exercises, top web developer and speaker Tim Wright will help you get results fast, even if you've never written a line of JavaScript before. Smart, friendly, enthusiastic, and packed with modern examples, Learning JavaScript covers both design-level and development-level JavaScript. You'll find expert knowledge and best practices for everything from jQuery and interface design to code organization and front-end templating. Wright's focused coverage includes regular break points and clear reviews that make modern JavaScript easier to learn-and easier to use! Learning JavaScript is your fastest route to success with JavaScript-whether you're entirely new to the language or you need to sharpen and upgrade skills you first learned a decade ago! Coverage includes * Mastering all of the JavaScript concepts and terminology you need to write new programs or efficiently modify existing code * Creating robust, secure code for both the design and development levels * Maximizing usability, reusability, accessibility, clarity, security, and performance * Taking full advantage of the browser environments your code will run in * Accessing the DOM to create behaviors and data interactions * Storing data for easy and efficient access * Using variables, functions, loops, and other core language features * Interacting with users through events * Communicating with servers through Ajax * Improving your productivity with JavaScript libraries

Tim Wright，資深Web前端工程師，有近10年前端設計與開發經驗，專注於CSS3、HTML5、網站易訪問性、用戶體驗等技術的研究與實踐，在構建能夠自動適應桌麵及移動設備瀏覽器的應用程序方麵造詣匪淺。是《Smashing Magazine》、《Sitepoint》與《Web Designer Depot》等多個知名網絡設計在綫刊物的專欄作傢，文章內容涵蓋前端開發的各個方麵。此外，他曾於包括Future of Web Design在內的多個活動中發錶演講。曾任職於美國多所大學，每到一處，必定會推動製訂先進的網絡開發標準。