Jquery: Novice to Ninja: Novice to Ninja

by Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie

Book Overview

jQuery: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition is the perfect book to jump-start your journey into jQuery. You'll learn all the basics, so you'll be able to truly appreciate the power of this JavaScript... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980576857
• ISBN13: 9780980576856
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Sitepoint
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

This is the best book of jquery

The superior jquery intro book

I have several jQuery books, but this is the one that truly helped me understand how everything works. Extremely readable, with excellent samples that are clearly explained. There is no comparison between this and, for example, Learning jQuery 1.3 (after reading, I still didn't get it). Note: to get the source code, go to sitepoint ([...]) and enter your email address as if you'd ordered from their site. They won't find a match so will ask you to type in the last word from one of the chapters, then they'll email you a link to download the source.

Wonderful guide to JQuery

I love this book. I'm an experienced programmer working mostly in PHP these days. I'm late to the party in terms of Javascript, but hey - you can't avoid it any longer, and with JQuery on your toolbelt to handle the hard work and the cross-browser nightmares it's not so painful anymore. Like all Sitepoint books (I now own almost their entire library), this is a well laid out, easy to read book that's full of useful and well explained examples. It assumes no knowledge of JQuery and very little knowledge of Javascript (although, unlike some other tomes, it doesn't waste your time teaching you Javascript too). One look at the cover is all it takes to realise that this book was designed and written BY web designers FOR web designers / developers. I was really surprised at the breadth and depth of the book. It's written in a nice casual style, but covers all the important aspects of using JQuery from Ajax and Animation to Forms and Controls. All the cool stuff you always wanted to know how to implement is in here. I even have this on PDF (available directly from Sitepoint) so I can reference it from my laptop when I'm working away from my office. It's that good.

Informative and fun way to master jQuery

jQuery Novice to Ninja is an extremely readable introduction to learning and using jQuery on your website. It's an introduction because jQuery, and the assorted plugins, can't be covered in a single book. This enjoyable read provides lots of code snippets that show you how to use jQuery to manipulate the browser DOM, inserting, adding or animating elements. Want to use Ajax? That's also in here. The book also covers: form and tree construction; images and slideshows; menus, tabbing and tooltips. In short everything you need to build a slick web 2.0 like website. The code samples available on the web site for the book provide you an easy way to experiment with changing calls to see what the result look like, for example the section on animations and easing. The illustrations are excellent and help in understanding the examples and explanations. This is the book for you if you want to transform a web site with dynamic responses and customizations. I recommend it highly.