Instant Javascript

by Holman, Brian; Lund, William

• ISBN13: 9780132684347
• ISBN10: 0132684349
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Pearson P T R

Summary

In this book you will learn by example how to create interactive Internet Applications on the World Wide Web using JavaScript. You will learn how to program in JavaScript on both the Web Browser and the Web Server. You'll be able to start creating your first interactive web pages immediately as the examples build on each other.

Author Biography

William Lund is the Library Information Systems Department Chair for the Lee Library at Brigham Young University.

Table of Contents

Preface

What You Will Learn

Benefits for Internet Application Developers

Benefits for Webmasters

Benefits for Database Administrators and Developers

What You Should Know

Brief History of the Internet and the World Wide Web

The Problem JavaScript Solves

Brief Introduction to JavaScript

How JavaScript Relates to Java

Overview of Chapters

Conventions Used in This Book

How To Obtain The Software used with this Book

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction to the JavaScript Architecture

What is JavaScript? Noteworthy Attributes of the JavaScript Language

Familiar

Embedded in HTML

Object-based but not object-oriented

Loose Data-typing

Relationship Between Client-side and Server-side JavaScript

Using JavaScript to Develop Internet Applications

Independence of Client-side and Server-side JavaScript

Getting Started with Client-side JavaScript

A simple "Hello World" script embedded in HTML

Overview of the components found in the script and the roles they play is the home of scripts which will be required by the whole document

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