The main target audience is professional web developers with either no previous JavaScript experience or quite limited experience.   Secondary audiences include amateur/hobbyist web developers, students, and professional web developers with no programming aspirations.

Contents

Introduction.
Chapter 1: Introduction to JavaScript and the Web.
Chapter 2: Data Types and Variables.
Chapter 3: Decisions, Loops, and Functions.
Chapter 4: JavaScript—An Object-Based Language.
Chapter 5: Programming the Browser.
Chapter 6: HTML Forms—Interacting with the User.
Chapter 7: Windows and Frames.
Chapter 8: String Manipulation.
Chapter 9: Date, Time, and Timers.
Chapter 10: Common Mistakes, Debugging, and Error Handling.
Chapter 11: Storing Information: Cookies.
Chapter 12: Dynamic HTML in Early Browsers.
Chapter 13: Dynamic HTML in Modern Browsers.
Chapter 14: JavaScript and XML.
Chapter 15: Using ActiveX and Plug-Ins with JavaScript.
Chapter 16: Server-Side Scripting with ASP.
Chapter 17: Databases.
Appendix A: Exercise Solutions.
Appendix B: JavaScript Core Reference.
Appendix C: JavaScript Client Reference.
Appendix D: Latin-1 Character Set.
Index.

Paul Wilton (Cambridgeshire, UK) has been working professionally as a programmer for over 6 years and in web development for 5 of those years. He is currently working freelance developing functionality for websites including e-commerce, message boards, chat applications – the list is endless. His most recent work includes a case tracking system for a law firm and an online booking system for a holiday cottage rental company.