jQuery: Novice to Ninja |  | Authors: Earle Castledine, Craig Sharkie
Publisher: SitePoint
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Publication Date: February 22, 2010
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Product Description
jQuery: Novice to Ninja is a compilation of best-practice jQuery solutions to meet the most challenging JavaScript problems. In this question-and-answer book on jQuery, you'll find a cookbook of ready-to-go solutions to help breathe life into your web page.
Topics covered include: - Scrolling, Resizing and Animating Webpage elements - Backgrounds, Slideshows, and Crossfaders - Menus, Tabs, and Panels - Buttons, Fields, and Controls - Lists, Trees, and Tables - Frames, Windows, and Dialogs - Adding interactivity with Ajax - Using the jQuery User Interface Themeroller - Writing your own jQuery plug-ins
All code used to create each solution is available for download and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.
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 Best book to start with April 10, 2010
A. DiMauro (Manchester, NJ)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have to agree with other reviews, this is an excellent book to start learning jQuery. Not that there aren't other excellent jQuery books, but the best ones out there are getting a little dated. If you are just starting, not only is this book easy to read and understand, with lots of great examples, but it's also up to date with jQuery version 1.4.
They start with an already functional html site, and then add jQuery to it to spice it up. For all new web developers out there, this is the way to do it! JavaScript/jQuery should be put in last only after you have a functional site, for those people without JavaScript support (especially screen readers for the blind). This book follows best-practices and I commend them for it. It's the book I wish I had when I first tried to learn jQuery. Get it. You won't be disappointed.
It's so easy to 'write' (i.e. copy/paste) bad JavaScript, as the web has been plagued with for so many years. But, as frameworks like jQuery start to gain tremendous popularity, that trend is changing. There really is no sense in 'reinventing the wheel'. Use jQuery, or another framework. What I like about jQuery is that it makes so many things easy, and leverages CSS syntax so you have less to learn.
It seems that this book is selling fast, as of this writing it says 1 to 4 months shipping time! Also, I'm not sure why Sitepoint books tend to have such a small discount on Amazon. Sitepoint likes to get people to buy books direct from them. Not sure why. It seems to be available faster on their web site. I have an eBook version. As of this writing, they are running a 5-for-1 eBook promotion on the Sitepoint web site. But, I got mine through my subscription to Safari Books Online, which I highly recommend.
If you are just starting, or even just want a reference for the jQuery basics, this book is the one to have.
Informative and fun way to master jQuery March 18, 2010
Bernard Farrell (North of Boston, MA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
The superior jquery intro book April 6, 2010
timazon (Golden, CO)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Unleash the power of JavaScript. March 23, 2010
Chris Smith (Canada)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
What convinced me to buy this book is the fact that many big internet companies (digg, wordpress, google, and even amazon) have utilized the jQuery JavaScript library to add interactivity and animation to their website.
If they were using jQuery, I knew I had to learn a bit more about this technology. Debugging JavaScript and getting it to work across multiple browsers can be one of the most frustrating experiences, and the jQuery library eliminates that hassle completely saving hours or potentially days of "head banging" when trying to get that "one thing" to work in IE6.
"jQuery: Novice To Ninja" offers tons of tips and how-to information on basic animation, highlighting when hovering, reading & setting CSS properties and creating lightboxes and slideshows. What I found most useful though was the info on how to apply jQuery to Menus and navigation elements by creating accordion-style and expand-on-hover menus.
Wonderful guide to JQuery March 28, 2010
S. J. Mahony (Wellington, New Zealand)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
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