JavaScript: Complete Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (Shelly Cashman Series) - Softcover

Includes five engaging, real-world projects that go beyond the basics to cover such JavaScript topics as conditionals, functions, objects, properties, methods, event handlers, forms, and frames. Unique Shelly Cashman project orientation defines the problem, analyzes it, and then develops a solution in the most efficient way to help readers understand the Web page development cycle. Opener demonstrates how to integrate JavaScript and HTML to make Web pages interactive. Prior HTML experience required. Extensive end-of-project exercises, including the unique Cases and Places case studies that require critical thinking, reinforce the concepts and skills learned.

Gary B. Shelly wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. More than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman Series' textbooks have been sold. Gary and a talented group of contributing authors have produced books on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software that are the leading textbooks in the computer technology market today. Gary has hosted the annual Shelly Cashman Institute, a week-long training event focusing on the latest topics in technology, for the past 34 years.

Thomas J. Cashman received his education at California State University, Los Angeles. He established one of the first business data processing programs in the U.S. at Long Beach City College in California, where he taught and served as department head. In 1969, he began collaborating with now best-selling author, Gary Shelly.

William J. Dorin is the chair of the Computer and Information Systems department at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana. He has authored or co-authored several textbooks for the Shelly Cashman Series, including JavaScript and several editions of HTML.

Jeffrey J. Quasney has worked with the Shelly Cashman Series for more than 9 years in various capacities, including as a developer of teaching tools associated with the Series' textbooks. He has authored several textbooks, including Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, several editions of Microsoft Office Excel, and is a contributing author for Discovering Computers and Discovering Computers: Fundamentals Edition.