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HTML and JavaScript Programming Concepts (Computer Applications Series)
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by Karl Barksdale and E. Shane Turner
Sales Rank: 1082669
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Discount: 11 %
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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Course Technology; 1 edition February 1, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 053868822X
ISBN-13: 978-0538688222
Product Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
Book Description
Learn the programming basics behind creating Web Pages with HTML & JavaScript Programming Concepts. Each chapter presents basic programming concepts with hands-on activities to sharpen skills. Users learn within the context of a business project so they can apply them to real-world case scenarios.
About The Author
Karl Barksdale was a Development Manager for the Training and Certification team at WordPerfect Corporation and a Marketing Manager in the Consumer Products division. Prior to his stint at WordPerfect, he obtained a master's degree in curriculum from the University of Utah and applied his degree as the Secondary Curriculum Coordinator for Provo School District. Later he returned to education as a Business Education instructor. Since that time he has authored more than 50 business and computer education textbooks for South-Western Educational Publishing, Course Technology, Speaking Solutions, and other publishers. His last 40 titles were voice-written using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Barksdale is the co-founder of the Summer of Speech training programs credited with training more than 10,000 Business Education instructors in the skills needed to teach speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and other DigiTools successfully. Mr. E. Shane Turner is currently a senior software engineer for a benefits management company based in Utah. He has written many textbooks for Thomson as well as written numerous software reviews for three on-line computer magazine publications. Mr. Turner was first introduced to HTML in 1994 while attending classes for his M.S. in Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He has taught Computer Science at both Weaver State University and Colorado Technical University.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is an excellent introduction to HTML and JavaScript. It is written at a level understandable to high school and college students, and also quite readable by adults who are novices to computers and trying to do some self-study. The order of chapters and amount of work in each chapter is quite logical. All the important HTML tags are introduced. The reader or student makes a Web page, and adds to it progressively with each chapter. One excellent feature is that after showing each set of tags and what the code looks like in a text editor, the book then shows a screen shot of what your page should look like in a browser. There are also screen shots of the menus for both Netscape and IE browsers, with explanations of how to use Page Source, for example. The book discusses working on both PCs and Macs, and mentions the most common text editors for each. JavaScript is introduced with a minimum of technical programming jargon. There are several interesting bits of the history of programming, which might help hold the interest of students, and serve as pleasant asides to adults. I very much appreciate that the book also tells the user what NOT to do- the authors emphatically tell the users to be careful of color choices, that the BLINK tag will drive people nuts, and other elements of Netiquette that some books which concentrate solely on programming would not think to offer to new users.
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