Learning Javascript
Hello,
Can anyone sugest any good sites or books that take you through the basics of writing your own javascripts..... I've been able to create image roll overs on my sites, but I really want to learn more and be able to write my own from scratch.
Cheers
Harks
mairving posted this at 01:11 — 20th August 2001.
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Harks, there are a lot of good books on the subject. I have one called Javascript for the World Wide Web by Tom Negrino & Dori Smith. It will tell you most everything that you need to know. It can help if you have some programming experience. It is also a pretty good learning tool to see how some other's have developed scripts. Go over to Hotscripts and download some and disect them. This can be pretty informative.
I would personally think javascript is valuable to know but I think that you would be better off learning PHP, if you could only pick one.
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Suzanne posted this at 03:04 — 20th August 2001.
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PHP isn't really a replacement for JavaScript. JavaScript is a client side language (runs in the browser), and PHP is still, for all its cleverness, server-side.
They work well together, and you can use both to some degree to do the same things, but they are not interchangable.
Just FYI.
mjames posted this at 03:41 — 20th August 2001.
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I believe pageresource.com and htmlgoodies.com would be of some help.
Megan posted this at 13:21 — 20th August 2001.
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THere's also a good tutorial at Webmonkey.com and one called Voodoo's intro to Javascript (just search for that) - both are a little bit outdated but that shouldn't matter much. The problem I found with online tutotirals is that, at least when I was trying to learn, none of them covered all of the basics. You might be better off looking into getting a book.
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detox posted this at 14:18 — 20th August 2001.
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I know when I was learning I started out with the SAMS.net Javascript Unleashed. This was a really good book. Either that or the Javascript Bible.
There are a lot of fairly decent sites out there, but I would say one of the best has been Webmonkey's intro, that gave me a pretty solid grounding. Go to find tutorials for a start.
good luck...
Adrian J. Moreno posted this at 19:03 — 20th August 2001.
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I'll second "Javascript for the WWW". I use that book when I teach. Also, check out http://www.webcoder.com for a really good introduction to the Document Object Model (DOM).
harks posted this at 05:02 — 21st August 2001.
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Thanks everyone for your help... I'm only new to this site but I'm hooked.
Thanks again... Harks
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