JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development

This is a very readable book on JavaScript and jQuery largely because its focus is visual and because it has been expertly designed in terms of pictures, typography and layout. It's not dry like most other books on the subject, but colourful and inspiring, and written in plain minimalist language. It also uses good looking websites that you can download, complete with .css. These files are clean and uncluttered, containing just enough information to make them look great and allow you to try out the examples. If you're learning JavaScript, this is definitely a book I would recommend you to have in your library, especially for the section on jQuery which just makes it fun to learn. The colour pages have a quality feel to them. The only issue I had with this book was the binding. If you bust the spine, the pages will come out so look after it. I hope the author does a new version in years to come.

Why can't I give this more stars? Absolutely brilliant book. There's so much out there on the internet these days that there's little room for books, especially with front-end development. You have udemy courses, youtube videos and interactive tutorials, why bother with a book? I was thinking the same thing. I read a few reviews on this book and thought I'd give it the benefit of doubt. The book is beautifully designed. The content design is just excellent, I haven't seen a book like it. Jon Duckett smashes it out of the park, from vanilla Javascript to jQuery (which is a little out of date now, but still very very good). The book provides high-quality examples of working scripts with stunning designs. I love this book so much I bought the HTML and CSS book too. Very much looking forward to more from Jon Duckett. The book is as good as any online/interactive tutorial you will find on the internet. Can't recommend this book enough!

I have tried to learn Javascript and jQuery on a couple of occasions and I have never been entirely satisfied with my progress. This book is a revelation. The writing and the page style are just a delight. The stylish and colourful page layout makes the javascript code just jump out of the page at you. I have just finished the jQuery section (about halfway through the book) and I now feel very confident about it, both in using other (cleverer) people's plugins and developing my own scripts. The book covers the language and best practices and will be a useful reference as well as a tutorial for some time to come. There is more than this in this excellent book and I'm steadily working through the sections. I am confident with HTML, CSS, SASS and a couple of frameworks, and I do think you ought to be able to create a basic web page before attempting this book. I think this is one of my 'best buys' of the past few years.

Brilliant book. Clear, logical approach. I love the way the layout of the pages has been designed, more like a webpage than a traditional textbook. This gives little bitesize nuggets of information to digest. At first I thought that maybe there was too much vacant space on the page, and I would rather have paid for fewer more information-dense pages, but as I went on and began to get a hold on the complexities I decided that actually the presentation is just fine. As someone who has done a fair amount of programming I found the book easy to follow, although the nature of the material means there is a fair amount of theory to take on board before you can do anything useful. For those starting programming there are some useful and well-illustrated pages explaining basic programming concepts. The accompanying website has the code snippets for download but if there is any additional content, I haven't found it. I would have liked to have seen more there - after all, its what the book is about - and I would still have splashed out for the paper copy. I hope Jon Duckett is planning more books. I'd buy one on Java. Only four stars because the binding of the book is desperately poor. After a week a chunk of pages started coming out. Returning to Amazon for a swap and I hope to be luckier with the next one. I wonder if the hardback version suffers from the same problem.

This book is very well written and great for someone who has just started programming as it explains the basics of programming and its principles pretty succefully. It is also great for those who already have experience in programming, but want to learn javascript and jquery from scratch or upgrade their previous knowledge. The only downside of this book would be the binding quality as some pages have started falling apart and others are placed upside down or mixed up, but the style it is written in and the easiness to follow it make up for the not so great binding. All in all, it is a must for someone interested in web development, and one of the best books of this kind I have come across.

Very well written book. Unfortunately let down by the binding. I'm barely half way through my first read, enjoying it too, but sadly the pages are falling apart. I am not a careless reader, but this is a big let down for me. Jon is very good at explaining concepts, with good examples for a beginner, and good illustrations too. The accompanying website is also good for reference. But the people doing the binding need to go back to the drawing board and improve their workmanship. They can do better than this. If I had known I would have probably tried the hardcover version in the first instance. The content is certainly worthwhile. Revised: After writing to Nick Mannion at Wiley Publishing last week I'm happy to say my copy was promptly replaced with a new hard cover copy. I can safely say the response has been five-star.

Very easy to make a website build.

A great and convenient source to understand the scripting language of web. Readily understandable analogies, visualizations and examples. Accessing information happens in miliseconds in todays world but having a phsycial copy and being able to cross-read it feels both nostalgical and nice.

Recomendo. Livro rico em inforgráficos, exemplos simples e criativos, ótima qualidade de impressão. Ideal para todos os níveis de conhecimento.

The product itself is amazing. Well written, gorgeous design. It deserves a 5 star. HOWEVER, I'm quite disappointed that I received a paperback, despite paying for a Hardcover. Upon checking the posting, it says Hardcover is currently out of stock. So I am at a dilemma right now... I don't want to return this book because I need it now, but I wish I could get a refund for the extra cost I paid for the Hard Cover. I've been going around the links in Amazon, but couldn't find a way on how to get a refund for the extra cost I paid for the hard cover. Again, its not the author's fault, so I am keeping a 5-star rating for the product itself. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn JavaScript, just be careful not to buy an out-of-stock product, else you might get charged for a higher price. I hope Amazon or the seller would contact me about this.

We recently started using this book at Portland Code School after several of our students recommended it to us. Their copies are dog-eared and infused with post-it flags. This introductory information is available literally everywhere on the web and the question you have to ask is, "Why bother with a physical book?" The answer to that question is simply to experience the hardcover version of this book. It's beautiful. Inviting. Its page layout and graphic design tell you that you are embarked upon something professional and yet easy to learn. The text is written with a simplicity that doesn't talk down to the reader. This book is clear in its explanations and yet comprehensive in its coverage of the subject. As much as I love the "Head First" series of books, some times they are too precious. This book is just as inviting, but it condenses the information and covers a lot of ground. At first I was concerned that, like some coffee table books, the coating on the pages showed finger prints. I didn't want to mar the excellent presentation. But, as I continue to use it, revisiting pages and reviewing elements of the language, I started to view them as footprints in the snow -- reassurance that I had been here before and already knew something about the subject. They were one of the many ways I can track my progress. There will come a time that I don't visit these pages as often, as always happens with introductory books to technical subjects. And, I will also buy an ebook version of this when it's available so I can track along with my students without having to carry paper around as they experience and enjoy the textbook for the first time. But I will continue to recommend this, as a physical book, to students of JavaScript.

Etant développeur et designer front-end , je désirais mettre des mots sur des techniques que j'utilisais déjà, structurer ma façon de programmer javascript et en bonus parfaire mes connaissances. J'ai trouvé ce dont j'avais besoin dans cet ouvrage, des explications claires, concises, pas après pas avec une première partie uniquement dédiée aux bases du langage Javascript natif et une seconde reprenant les techniques apprises en se facilitant la tâche avec jQuery pour la manipulation de la DOM . Chaque étape propose une partie théorique et en regard une mise en pratique par le code. La fin de chaque chapitre offrant un exemple complet. La cerise sur le gâteau est la formidable mise en page ainsi que les très riches illustrations qui procurent vraiment beaucoup de plaisir au lecteur. Je le conseille à tout qui a déjà des bases en programmation ou est au moins intermédiaire dans un autre langage et qui veut dès le départ avoir les outils nécessaires, ainsi que de bonnes pratiques pour envisager l'utilisation de Javascript et jQuery dans ses projets. Une base donc qui devra être complémentée par d'autres ouvrages plus poussés traitants d'aspects plus précis du langage ou rentrant plus en profondeur dans le code.