{"id":248,"date":"2007-08-27T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathanwold.seguru.digital\/2007\/08\/book-review-learning-jquery.html"},"modified":"2019-05-24T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:27:29","slug":"book-review-learning-jquery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bf0cd40f-7ebb-43c9-a4ea-50b260f6ecbb.express.conves.io\/book-review-learning-jquery\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Learning jQuery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonathanwold.com\/images\/blog\/jquery-1.png\" alt=\"Learning jQuery\" title=\"Learning jQuery\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was first introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jquery.com\">jQuery<\/a>, oh.. somewhere around a few months ago. Having a strong background in niche marketing and then front-end web development (design\/xhtml\/css, etc), my &#8220;programming knowledge&#8221; had been limited to a basic ability to editing basic PHP, etc, and &#8220;making things work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A few client projects were calling for a bit of extra user-side interactivity, though, and I knew it was time to do some learning. I did some research and discovered jQuery. It looked really interesting and, being completely new to Javascript from a developer&#8217;s perspective, it offered me the ability to give my clients what they wanted without having to spend a whole lot more time than I had to learn how to do it from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit more research and the discovery that WordPress, my current development platform of choice, now comes packaged with jQuery, I was sold. I began scouring the web for tutorials and started putting into practice what I&#8217;d learned. <\/p>\n<p>Happy with the results and eager to learn more, I checked to see if there were any books available on the subject. A quick search on Amazon (at the time) left me disappointed. I kept looking, though, and not long after discovered that there was a brand new book on the horizon, appropriately titled, &#8220;Learning jQuery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I emailed the publishers and they graciously agreed to send me an advance copy of the book. It arrived not too long after. I had planned to set aside a few days to pour through it, but life had a few other ideas and a couple of trips, along with some rather big business moves, took away any spare time I had. <\/p>\n<p>As such, I haven&#8217;t been able to review the book in detail, yet, but I&#8217;ve skimmed it through and am fully satisfied that it will be just the hands on experience I need to open up the jQuery platform to some healthy experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;m situated in the new office, I (or someone else on the team) will be going through the book in detail and we&#8217;ll be sharing our experiences then.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, full credit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.jquery.com\/About\/Contributors\">jQuery team<\/a> for developing an excellent platform. Keep up the good work guys! Also, full credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.structureinteractive.com\/\">Jonathan Chaffer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishrules.com\/\">Karl Swedberg<\/a> for their excellent work on the book and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\">PACKT Publishing<\/a> for another fine release.<\/p>\n<p>To get your copy of the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/jQuery\/book\">buy Learning jQuery on PACKT&#8217;s website<\/a> or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-jQuery-Interaction-Development-JavaScript\/dp\/1847192505\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-0144917-1795959?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1188231993&#038;sr=8-1\">Amazon<\/a> (a tad more expensive, but nice if you have Amazon Prime).<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>-Jonathan Wold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was first introduced to jQuery, oh.. somewhere around a few months ago. 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