Books by Jeremy McPeak

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Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition

JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to enhance static web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. This improves the experience of visitors to your site and makes it more likely that they will visit again. You must have seen the flashy drop-down menus, moving text, and changing content that are now widespread on web sites—they are enabled through JavaScript. Supported by all the major browsers, JavaScript is the language of choice on the Web. It can even be used outside web applications—to automate administrative tasks, for example.

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Beginning JavaScript, 4th Edition

JavaScript allows you to enhance your web pages and web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. Serving as a great introduction to JavaScript, this book offers all you need to start using JavaScript on your web pages right away. It’s fully updated and covers utilizing JavaScript with the latest versions of the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers.

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Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition

With Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition, as your guide, you’ll discover how to break free of the “click and wait” standard and defy all the traditional rules of what can happen on the web. This book arms you with a developer-level understanding of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases so that you can create an unprecedented user experience in your web applications.

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Beginning JavaScript

The “Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition” is a very good book for beginners, who want to be an expert in JavaScript. Paul Wilton and Jeremy McPeak are the authors of this JavaScript book. Paul Wilton started as a Visual Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defense in the UK. He also has written numerous other JavaScript editions and all of them are helpful for the readers. In this book, Paul and Jeremy aim to teach you all you need to know to start experimenting with JavaScript. JavaScript is a text-based programming language used both on the client-side and server-side that allows you to make web pages interactive. They guide the reader from basics and then move on to learn how to create powerful web applications. Before starting this book, the reader will have an understanding of HTML and how to create a static web page. Once the reader is comfortable with the basics, then it will move on to one of the key ideas in JavaScript. The writing style of Beginning JavaScript is friendly and it will engage the readers from start to end of the page. To be honest, after reading this book you will have the skills to build a professional web application. In summary, Beginning JavaScript is an essential book for the newbies and intermediate programmers.