Html5, Javascript, and jQuery 24-Hour Trainer - Paperback

by Dane Cameron (Author)

Master web app development with hands-on practice and video demonstration

HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery 24-Hour Trainer shows you how to build real-world HTML5 apps -- both web-based and mobile -- in combination with JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS/CSS3. You'll learn progressively more advanced skills as you work through the series of hands-on video lessons. Exercises and screencasts walk you step-by-step through the process of building web applications, and give you the opportunity to experiment and extend the examples to create your own working web app. You'll gain a solid understanding of the fundamental technologies, and develop a skillset that fully exploits the functionality of web development tools.

Although HTML5 is at the forefront of web development, it exists within an ecosystem that also includes CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries like jQuery. Building robust, functional web applications requires a clear understanding of these technologies, and more importantly, the manner in which they fit together. This is your step-by-step guide to building web apps, with a hands-on approach that helps you learn by doing.

• Master the fundamentals of HTML and HTML5
• Explore multimedia capabilities and CSS3
• Integrate offline data storage, background processes, and other APIs
• Adapt web applications for mobile phones and tablets

Whether you're looking for a quick refresher or a first-time lesson, HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery 24-Hour Trainer will quickly get you up to speed.

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Hands-on HTML5 app development for web and mobile

HTML5, the dominant web development technology, shares an ecosystem with CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries like jQuery. To build robust, functional web applications, you need to understand these technologies and how they fit together. This book is your step-by-step, hands-on guide to building web apps.

Each section features a set of lessons that introduce key concepts and walk you through the application of a specific technology. Screencasts show you how to develop progressively more complex applications. You'll gain a solid understanding of the fundamental technologies and develop a skillset that fully exploits the functionality of web development tools.

HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery 24-Hour Trainer

• Provides a thorough understanding of HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery fundamentals
• Shows how to incorporate multimedia capabilities and CSS3
• Explains how the technologies work together to create functional, versatile web applications
• Demonstrates how to integrate offline data storage, background processes, and other APIs
• Teaches you to adapt web applications for smartphones and tablets
• Reinforces concepts and processes with video instruction

More than 6 hours of video training

Each lesson in this book is accompanied by an online instructional demonstration video to reinforce what you learn. Regardless of your learning style, you can now quickly master the basics and expand your skill set with this step-by-step multi-platform learning experience.

Author Biography

Dane Cameron is a professional software engineer and a senior solutions architect for an IT consultancy in Wellington, New Zealand. An expert on HTML5 technologies, Dane played a hands-on role in the development of several large-scale, innovative web applications. He is the author of the Amazon bestselling guide A Software Engineer Learns HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.