Learning jQuery
Over the past few months I’ve compiled some lists of useful tutorials and tools for adding JavaScript functionality to your web sites with jQuery.
Today I’m highlighting another resource for the web developer looking to incorporate jQuery into their web projects.
Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques is a book aimed at web developers who have a good grounding in HTML and CSS. However, the book doesn’t assume previous knowledge of JavaScript frameworks, or jQuery specifically. Readers however should be familiar with JavaScript syntax.
The book covers the basics of jQuery, right up to some advanced JavaScript techniques that are made simpler using this powerful JavaScript framework. The book enables you to take your CSS and add extra dynamics that are above and beyond the capabilities of CSS alone.
The book also covers some real-life examples that you can adapt to your own web projects. In short, the book is aimed at the web developer rather than the programmer, enabling web developers to pick out bits and pieces that are useful to them.
For web developers who aren’t yet using Ajax, the book covers the addition of Ajax functionality to websites using the jQuery framework. The book is accompanied by a code download available online, making working through the examples very quick and easy.
On Amazon this book has so far received a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
