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.

Book review: Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Previously, I have been flirting aroung the html and css world a bit for the past few years without much seriousness.

After bumping into this book and picking up a few chapters, i now have a better understanding of not only about html and css, but also the difference between HTML n XHTML, in depth understanding of CSS, and also some badic javascript and some useful famous plugins widely used in today's internet.

This book is a very good book for beginners, like what stated in the title.

It is a very good introduction to making dynamic websites. Totally suitable for even zero internet knowledge fellas.

The sections on HTML and CSS is considered quite in depth, but not so with JavaScript. But that shouldnt be a reason to put you of from reading this book.

The introduction in JavaScript is more than enough to get us started in building a good website. Apart from that, it also introduced a few useful plugins and does point us to the correct direction for doing our own further research if we need to improve our JavaScript skills.

My personal experience, i spent almost a month flipping thru the entire book, and spent the rest of the time of my web programming time asking google. This book is good enough to give u all the knowledge needed in order for you to ask google if u need further reference.

All in all, this book is highly recommanded for those new / semi new to html/css/javascript programming.






Useful Links

• http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/