Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Book Review: jQuery Pocket Reference


After possessing all the basic information that you need to know about designing webpage in the internet about HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the next big thing that helps you make your website more dynamic, more elegant, and adding the WOW effect is jQuery + jQueryUi.











A quick explanation on what is actually jQuery:-

jQuery is the "write less, do more" JavaScript library. Its powerful features and ease of use have made it the most popular client-side JavaScript framework for the Web. This book is jQuery's trusty companion: the definitive "read less, learn more" guide to the library.
jQuery Pocket Reference explains everything you need to know about jQuery, completely and comprehensively. You'll learn how to:
  • Select and manipulate document elements
  • Alter document structure
  • Handle and trigger events
  • Create visual effects and animations
  • Script HTTP with Ajax utilities
  • Use jQuery's selectors and selection methods, utilities, plugins and more
The 25-page quick reference summarizes the library, listing all jQuery methods and functions, with signatures and descriptions.



This isn't a book that goes into the deep and detail points of the subject.
As the book name stated, it is just a pocket reference.

Even though as the name stated, it is still a very good book that managed to explain the basic, the fundamentals, and all the need-to-know subjects, and pack it in a very nice and non-boring way within 150+some pages.

For those programmers that are already used to reading and fiddling thru programming documentations, the official  jQuery + jQueryUi website's documentation is already very well and perfectly.... ermmm ..... documented.

With this book, it just add the punch, and get your engine moving is at smoother and faster pace.

Definitely a book which is worth the 2-weeks reading time.


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