Jack Franklin - Beginning jQuery

Beginning jQuery

Jack Franklin

Beginning jQuery

Copyright 2013 by Jack Franklin

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Contents at a Glance

Contents

Foreword

Im a Christian, I love my family, I work for appendTo, and I love to learn! I think Jack and I share the common desire to learn.

I first noticed Jack Franklin when he launched the JavaScript Playground web site. I watched as he regularly posted many relevant topics about the front-end development world. I then saw him branch out and experiment with server-side JavaScriptrecording and sharing screencasts, speaking at conferences, and now writing this book.

I was honored when he contacted me to write the foreword for his book. jQuery has come a long way since 2006. There have been many books written about it and Im certain there will be many more to come. The thing I like about Jack is that he is first and foremost a JavaScript scholar. As your read through his book, he takes special care to introduce his readers to proper JavaScript concepts in order to shield them from confusion down the road.

jQuery tends to be an easy library for many developers and designers to learn, but the danger comes when they start to feel friction with the actual JavaScript language, not the jQuery library. Jack appreciates this friction and tries to alleviate that roadblock for his readers.

Jack gives a good overview of the main topics that jQuery covers and provides numerous code examples and snippets for his readers to grasp. I personally find that the technical books I most enjoy reading are ones that have code sprinkled here and there so that I can fully grasp the concepts explained in the prose.

jQuery is a fast-evolving library and new versions come out frequently. As a result, new features are added and others are deprecated from version to version. If you are new to jQuery or need a quick refresher, this book will navigate you toward the appropriate API methods and techniques youll need to become proficient with the jQuery library.