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Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer with 20 years of experience developing enterprise applications. He has used HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery extensively to develop a wide array of web pages ranging from enterprise application interfaces to sophisticated rich Internet applications to smart interfaces for mobile web services. He is the author of Python Developers Phrasebook and Sams Teach Yourself jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours.

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JavaScript and its amped-up counterpart jQuery have completely changed the game when it comes to creating rich interactive web pages and web-based applications. JavaScript has long been a critical component for creating dynamic web pages. Now, with the advancements in the jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile libraries, dynamic web development has changed forever.

This chapter focuses on providing you with some concepts of dynamic web programming and getting set up to use JavaScript and jQuery in your web pages.