JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development Paperback – 18 July 2014

This is a very readable book on JavaScript and jQuery largely because its focus is visual and because it has been expertly designed in terms of pictures, typography and layout. It's not dry like most other books on the subject, but colourful and inspiring, and written in plain minimalist language. It also uses good looking websites that you can download, complete with .css. These files are clean and uncluttered, containing just enough information to make them look great and allow you to try out the examples.If you're learning JavaScript, this is definitely a book I would recommend you to have in your library, especially for the section on jQuery which just makes it fun to learn.The colour pages have a quality feel to them. The only issue I had with this book was the binding. If you bust the spine, the pages will come out so look after it.I hope the author does a new version in years to come.

Very well written book. Unfortunately let down by the binding. I'm barely half way through my first read, enjoying it too, but sadly the pages are falling apart. I am not a careless reader, but this is a big let down for me. Jon is very good at explaining concepts, with good examples for a beginner, and good illustrations too. The accompanying website is also good for reference. But the people doing the binding need to go back to the drawing board and improve their workmanship. They can do better than this. If I had known I would have probably tried the hardcover version in the first instance. The content is certainly worthwhile.Revised:After writing to Nick Mannion at Wiley Publishing last week I'm happy to say my copy was promptly replaced with a new hard cover copy. I can safely say the response has been five-star.

I have tried to learn Javascript and jQuery on a couple of occasions and I have never been entirely satisfied with my progress. This book is a revelation. The writing and the page style are just a delight. The stylish and colourful page layout makes the javascript code just jump out of the page at you. I have just finished the jQuery section (about halfway through the book) and I now feel very confident about it, both in using other (cleverer) people's plugins and developing my own scripts. The book covers the language and best practices and will be a useful reference as well as a tutorial for some time to come. There is more than this in this excellent book and I'm steadily working through the sections. I am confident with HTML, CSS, SASS and a couple of frameworks, and I do think you ought to be able to create a basic web page before attempting this book. I think this is one of my 'best buys' of the past few years.

Brilliant book. Clear, logical approach. I love the way the layout of the pages has been designed, more like a webpage than a traditional textbook. This gives little bitesize nuggets of information to digest. At first I thought that maybe there was too much vacant space on the page, and I would rather have paid for fewer more information-dense pages, but as I went on and began to get a hold on the complexities I decided that actually the presentation is just fine.As someone who has done a fair amount of programming I found the book easy to follow, although the nature of the material means there is a fair amount of theory to take on board before you can do anything useful. For those starting programming there are some useful and well-illustrated pages explaining basic programming concepts.The accompanying website has the code snippets for download but if there is any additional content, I haven't found it. I would have liked to have seen more there - after all, its what the book is about - and I would still have splashed out for the paper copy.I hope Jon Duckett is planning more books. I'd buy one on Java.Only four stars because the binding of the book is desperately poor. After a week a chunk of pages started coming out. Returning to Amazon for a swap and I hope to be luckier with the next one. I wonder if the hardback version suffers from the same problem.

Learning new languages can be a tedious process which is not helped by plain black and white wash text books with no coloured syntax.But that is not the case here. This print is by far the best visual learning experience i have had so far in the many programming books i have read. I only wish more prints would take into account how important it is for the developer/reader to be comfortable with the reading material.Positive learning experience = happy developer = better code & job satisfaction.O'riely Books take a leaf out of this book, literally !Its such a breeze to learn from honestly. I mainly deal with PHP back-end dev but thought it would be good to have some JavaScript. I read this a little before bed, bookmark anything important as a reminder or reference for work and I'm away.Wish they did more on other languages.5*

Perfect condition arrived when it said and very clean and tidy

Why can't I give this more stars? Absolutely brilliant book. There's so much out there on the internet these days that there's little room for books, especially with front-end development. You have udemy courses, youtube videos and interactive tutorials, why bother with a book? I was thinking the same thing. I read a few reviews on this book and thought I'd give it the benefit of doubt.The book is beautifully designed. The content design is just excellent, I haven't seen a book like it. Jon Duckett smashes it out of the park, from vanilla Javascript to jQuery (which is a little out of date now, but still very very good). The book provides high-quality examples of working scripts with stunning designs. I love this book so much I bought the HTML and CSS book too. Very much looking forward to more from Jon Duckett. The book is as good as any online/interactive tutorial you will find on the internet. Can't recommend this book enough!