Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Book Overview
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers provides a developer-level introduction along with the more advanced and useful features of JavaScript.
Starting at the beginning, the book explores how JavaScript originated and evolved into what it is today. A detailed discussion of the components that make up a JavaScript implementation follows, with specific focus on standards such as ECMAScript and the Document Object Model (DOM). The differences in JavaScript implementations used in different popular Web browsers are also discussed.
Building on that base, the book moves on to cover basic concepts of JavaScript including its version of object-oriented programming, inheritance, and its use in various markup languages such as HTML. An in-depth examination of events and event handling is followed by an exploration of browser detection techniques and a guide to using regular expressions in JavaScript. The book then takes all this knowledge and applies it to creating dynamic user interfaces.
The last part of the book is focused on issues related to the deployment of JavaScript solutions in Web applications. These topics include error handling, debugging, security, optimization/obfuscation, XML, and Web Services.
This book is aimed at three groups of readers:
- Experienced developers familiar with object-oriented programming who are looking to learn JavaScript as it relates to traditional OO languages such as Java and C++.
- Web application developers attempting to enhance the usability of their Web sites and Web applications.
- Novice JavaScript developers aiming to better understand the language.
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Nicholas C. Zakas is a user interface designer for Web applications, specializing in client-side technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Nicholas currently works as Senior Software Engineer, Design Engineering, at MatrixOne, Inc. located in Westford, Massachusetts, USA.
Nicholas has a B.S. in Computer Science from Merrimack College, where he learned traditional programming in C and C++. During college, he began investigating the World Wide Web and HTML in his spare time, eventually teaching himself enough to be hired as Webmaster of a small software company named Radnet, Inc. in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. It was there that Nicholas began learning JavaScript and working on Web applications.
Nicholas can be reached through his Web site, http://www.nczonline.net/.
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