JavaScript for Absolute Beginners

Book Description

If you are new to both JavaScript and programming, this hands-on book is for you. Rather than staring blankly at gobbledygook, you’ll explore JavaScript by entering and running hundreds of code samples in Firebug, a free JavaScript debugger. Then in the last two chapters, you’ll leave the safety of Firebug and hand-code an uber cool JavaScript application in your preferred text editor.

Written in a friendly, engaging narrative style, this innovative JavaScript tutorial covers the following essentials:

• Core JavaScript syntax, such as value types, operators, expressions, and statements provided by ECMAScript.
• Features for manipulating XHTML, CSS, and events provided by DOM.
• Object-oriented JavaScript, including prototypal and classical inheritance, deep copy, and mixins.
• Closure, lazy loading, advance conditional loading, chaining, currying, memoization, modules, callbacks, recursion, and other powerful function techniques.
• Encoding data with JSON or XML.
• Remote scripting with JSON-P or XMLHttpRequest
• Drag-and-drop, animated scrollers, skin swappers, and other cool behaviors.
• Optimizations to ensure your scripts run snappy.
• Formatting and naming conventions to prevent you from looking like a greenhorn.
• New ECMAScript 5, DOM 3, and HTML 5 features such as Object.create(), Function.prototype.bind(), strict mode, querySelector(), querySelectorAll(), and getElementsByClassName().

As you can see, due to its fresh approach, this book is by no means watered down. Therefore, over the course of your journey, you will go from JavaScript beginner to wizard, acquiring the skills recruiters desire.

中文：

书名：面向绝对初学者的JavaScript

如果您对JavaScript和编程都是新手，这本实践性书籍是为您准备的。而不是茫然地盯着官样文章，您将通过在Firebug(一个免费的JavaScript调试器)中输入并运行数百个代码样例来探索JavaScript。然后，在最后两章中，您将离开Firebug的安全性，在您首选的文本编辑器中手动编写一个超酷的JavaScript应用程序。

以友好、引人入胜的叙事风格编写的这份创新的JavaScript教程涵盖了以下要点：

• 核心的JavaScript语法，如值类型、运算符、表达式和ECMAScript提供的语句。
• 用于操作由DOM提供的XHTML、CSS和事件的功能。
• 面向对象的Java脚本，包括原型和经典继承、深度复制和混合。
• 闭包、延迟加载、高级条件加载、链接、当前、记忆、模块、回调、递归和其他强大的函数技术。
• 用JSON或XML编码数据。
• 使用JSON-P或XMLHttpRequest进行远程脚本编写
• 拖放、动画滚动条、皮肤交换器和其他很酷的行为。
• 优化以确保您的脚本快速运行。
• 格式和命名约定，以防止您看起来像一个新手。
• 新的ECMAScript5、DOM 3和HTML5特性，如Object.Create()、Function.Prototype.ind()、严格模式、querySelector()、querySelectorAll()和getElementsByClassName()。

正如你所看到的，由于其新颖的方法，这本书绝不会被淡化。因此，在您的旅程中，您将从JavaScript初学者成长为精通，获得招聘人员所需的技能。