JavaScript is a must-have skill for all web developers. JavaScript: Novice to Ninja is a fun, practical, and comprehensive guide to the modern usage of this deceptively powerful language. Comprehensively updated to cover ECMAScript 6 and modern JavaScript development, the second edition of this step-by-step introduction to coding in JavaScript will show you how to to solve real-world problems, design eye-catching animations, build smarter forms, and develop richer applications.

• Learn the basics of JavaScript programming: functions, methods, properties, loops and logic


• Use events to track user interactions


• Build smarter web forms that improve the user experience


• Work with the document object model (DOM) and Ajax to dynamicall update your pages


• Add functionality to your apps using HTML5's powerful APIs


• Use Test Driven Development methodology to write more robust code


• Build a complete, working JavaScript quiz app from scratch