Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours

One of the world's leading step-by-step JavaScript tutorials - now fully updated with hot new HTML5-based web development techniques

* Today's freshest JavaScript tutorial: reflects JavaScript's growing use alongside HTML5/CSS3, while strengthening its proven value to novice web developers.
* Brand-new coverage of jQuery and mobile development.
* Packed with large, full-color illustrations and hands-on examples.
* All code presented in color to illuminate program components and structure.

For years, JavaScript has been the world's #1 web scripting language. Today, it provides the programming underpinnings for key HTML5/CSS3 features, making it indispensable for building rich, robust web solutions. Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition is the freshest, easiest guide to modern JavaScript development. Extensively updated to reflect JavaScript's growing use with HTML5 and CSS3, this full-color book is now even more valuable to inexperienced web developers. Packed with large illustrations, it presents all code in color, helping readers quickly understand program components, structure, and behavior. These outstanding visuals are complemented with a friendly writing style based on practical, complete examples. Readers gain hands-on mastery of syntax, program control, functions, objects, DOM, CSS, libraries, media, and more.

As they develop foundational skills, they also learn newer techniques such as:

Using JavaScript, Ajax, and XMLHTTPRequest to improve interactivity.
Leveraging jQuery and jQuery-UI libraries.
Working with JavaScript and HTML5 together