Begin to Code with JavaScript
About this ebook
Microsoft has completely reinvented the beginning programmers tutorial, reflecting deep re-search into how todays beginners learn, and why other books fall short. Begin to Code with JavaScript is packed with innovations, including its Snaps library of pre-built operations that are easy to combine your own unique programs, Cookie Cutter templates that give you a flying start, and Make Something Happen projects that help you build skills by creating your own programs, not programs someone else has handed you.
Throughout, Begin to Code with JavaScript balances playful exposition and illustration of programming fundamentals with your own creative input and youll never be more than a page or two away from making something unique and personal to you. It will help you:
- Start running JavaScript and understand how it works
- Construct web pages with HTML, and style them with CSS
- Work with and store data, make decisions, and repeat actions
- Use objects and create functions
- Take advantage of pre-built libraries and frameworks
- Create full applications and games from simple to complex
- Understand the social aspects of software development
- Test and debug your code with "What can go wrong" sections
- Use practical, downloadable code samples to jumpstart your own projects
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About the author
Rob Miles spent more than 30 years teaching programming at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. He now runs a company promoting community uptake of computer technology. He’s a Microsoft MVP with a passion for programming and creating new things. If he had any spare time, he’d spend it writing even more code. He loves building devices and then switching them on to see what they do. He reckons that programming is the most creative thing you can learn how to do. He claims to know a lot of really good jokes, but nobody has ever heard him tell one. If you want an insight into the Wacky WorldTM of Rob Miles, you can read his blog at www.robmiles. com and follow him on Twitter via @RobMiles.
