JavaScript for Web Designers

by Mat Marquis

Overview

If staring down JavaScript leaves you unsteady, take heart. Mat Marquis is at your side, offering a detailed yet approachable tour around this essential language. Make your way through plenty of practical examples, as you pick up syntax rules, the fundamentals of scripting, and how to handle data types and loops. You'll emerge clear-eyed and confident-and ready to get to work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952616358
Publisher:	Mathew Marquis
Publication date:	09/28/2016
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mat "Wilto" Marquis is an amateur boxer, aspiring chef, halfway decent carpenter, and passable antique British motorcycle mechanic-when not making fast, accessible, responsive websites. He keeps busy.As chair of the Responsive Issues Community Group, Mat spearheaded the effort to bring native responsive image solutions to the HTML5 specification, later going on to facilitate browser implementations and oversee the addition of native responsive image techniques to major CMSes. He has spoken at An Event Apart, edited for A List Apart, and published books with A Book Apart, completing what he describes as "like an EGOT, but for putting semicolons in the right places."

Editorial Reviews

Mat consistently demonstrates empathy for you (his reader), your users, and the future maintainers of your code, making this book a great companion for any web designer looking to take on more programming responsibilities.

-MIKE PENNISI

Front-end developer at Bocoup

JavaScript is here, in full force. You hold in your hands a book that clearly explains the essentials you really need to know. Mat will teach you how to write running code for real websites and give you a firm grasp on JavaScript's building blocks.

-JEN SIMMONS

Executive producer and host of The Web Ahead

When I first tried learning JavaScript, I gave up, deciding it was impossible. It was only a year later that I went back, gave it another go, and started to get it. This book would have saved me that year. It covers not only understanding JavaScript, but also how to use it responsibly within the browser. You won't find that in many other books, which is why there are so many bad experiences on the web.

-JAKE ARCHIBALD

Developer advocate for Google Chrome

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