JavaScript: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition

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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Hello, JavaScript
Chapter 2: Programming Basics
Chapter 3: Arrays, Logic, and Loops
Chapter 4: Functions
Chapter 5: Objects
Chapter 6: The Document Object Model
Chapter 7: Events
Chapter 8: Forms
Chapter 9: The Window Object
Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging
Chapter 11: Further Functions
Chapter 12: Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
Chapter 13: Ajax
Chapter 14: HTML5 APIs
Chapter 15: Modern JavaScript Development
Chapter 16: Next Steps