Learning JavaScript

• Introduction and First Looks
• JavaScript Data Types and Variables
• Operators and Statements
• The JavaScript Objects
• Functions
• Catching Events
• Forms and JiT Validation
• The Sandbox and Beyond: Cookies, Connectivity, and Piracy
• The Basic Browser Objects
• DOM: The Document Object Model
• Creating Custom JavaScript Objects
• Building Dynamic Web Pages: Adding Style to Your Script
• Moving Outside the Page with Ajax
• Good News: Juicy Libraries! Amazing Web Services! Fun APIs!
• Appendix 1. Answers

• Introduction and First Looks
  • Twisted History: Specs and Implementations
  • Cross-Browser Incompatibility and Other Common JavaScript Myths
  • What You Can Do with JavaScript
  • First Look at JavaScript: "Hello World!"
  • The JavaScript Sandbox
  • Accessibility and JavaScript Best Practices
• JavaScript Data Types and Variables
  • Identifying Variables
  • Scope
  • Simple Types
  • Constants: Named but Not Variables
  • Questions
• Operators and Statements
  • Format of a JavaScript Statement
  • Simple Statements
  • Conditional Statements and Program Flow
  • The Conditional Operators
  • The Logical Operators
  • Advanced Statements: The Loops
  • Questions
• The JavaScript Objects
  • The Object Constructor
  • The Number Object
  • The String Object
  • Regular Expressions and RegExp
  • Purposeful Objects: Date and Math
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • Associative Arrays: The Arrays That Aren't
  • Questions
• Functions
  • Defining a Function: Let Me Count the Ways
  • Callback Functions
  • Functions and Recursion
  • Nested Functions, Function Closure, and Memory Leaks
  • Function As Object
  • Questions
• Catching Events
  • The Event Handler at DOM Level 0
  • Questions
• Forms and JiT Validation
  • Accessing the Form
  • Attaching Events to Forms: Different Approaches
  • Selection
  • Radio Buttons and Checkboxes
  • Input Fields and JiT Regular Expressions
  • Questions
• The Sandbox and Beyond: Cookies, Connectivity, and Piracy
  • The Sandbox
  • All About Cookies
  • Alternative Storage Techniques
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Questions
• The Basic Browser Objects
  • BOM at a Glance
  • The window Object
  • Frames and Location
  • history, screen, and navigator
  • The all Collection, Inner/Outer HTML and Text, and Old and New Documents
  • Something Old, Something New
  • Questions
• DOM: The Document Object Model
  • A Tale of Two Interfaces
  • The DOM and Compliant Browsers
  • The DOM HTML API
  • Understanding the DOM: The Core API
  • The DOM Core Document Object
  • Element and Access in Context
  • Modifying the Tree
  • Questions
• Creating Custom JavaScript Objects
  • The JavaScript Object and Prototyping
  • Creating Your Own Custom JavaScript Objects
  • Object Detection, Encapsulation, and Cross-Browser Objects
  • Chaining Constructors and JS Inheritance
  • One-Off Objects
  • Advanced Error-Handling Techniques (try, throw, catch)
  • What's New in JavaScript
  • Questions
• Building Dynamic Web Pages: Adding Style to Your Script
  • DHTML: JavaScript, CSS, and DOM
  • Fonts and Text
  • Position and Movement
  • Size and Clipping
  • Display, Visibility, and Opacity
  • Questions
• Moving Outside the Page with Ajax
  • Ajax: It's Not Only Code
  • How Ajax Works
  • Hello Ajax World!
  • The Ajax Object: XMLHttpRequest and IE's ActiveX Objects
  • Working with XMLor Not
  • Google Maps
  • Questions
• Good News: Juicy Libraries! Amazing Web Services! Fun APIs!
  • Before Jumping In, A Word of Caution
  • Working with Prototype
  • Script.aculo.us: More Than the Sum of Its Periods
  • Sabre's Rico
  • Dojo
  • The Yahoo! UI
  • MochiKit
  • Questions
• Appendix 1. Answers