Phine Solutions web work notes

Being a half-baked JavaScript developer for a long time it wasn’t easy for me to grasp the concept like “selectors”, “traversing” and “utilities” in JQuery, and every time I started to write something using JavaScript it was always a series of events of Googling for sample code, checking the API, and Googling again for the right syntax if it doesn’t.

Recently I found this book “JQuery In Action” from Amazon and I was quite pleased after reading it. The information in the book is well organized and illustrated. And the authors explain the concept before digging into syntax and examples, so you not only know how to do code in JQuery, but most importantly, why to do it in this way.

My favorite subjects in this book are “understanding browser event models” (chapter 4) and “JavaScript that you need to know but might now”, the later is actually an appendix. They fill the gaps in my JavaScript knowledge and brought some new but important perspective on how it really works.

The lab code is great and it will probably help me quite a bit for my future projects.

So if you want to get serious about JavaScript programming, get this book. It’s definitely worth the read.