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Issue 178

From Issue #178
February 2009

Feb 01, 2009  By Reuven M. Lerner
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An initial look at jQuery, an increasingly popular JavaScript library.
Conclusion

As I hope you've seen, JavaScript programming with jQuery is fairly easy and straightforward, and it allows us to do many things quickly and elegantly. Next month, we'll continue to look at jQuery, examining its plugin architecture and some of the widgets in jQuery's UI library.

Resources

jQuery is distributed from the Web site www.jquery.com. That site not only has software downloads, but also documentation, tutorials and links to various libraries and tools that many jQuery authors use.

I recently received two books on jQuery, both of which I found to be quite good. From Packt Press comes Learning jQuery by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Sweebber, which is good for Web developers who have experience in another language already—perhaps even JavaScript. It reviews many of the different types of functionality a JavaScript programmer can accomplish using jQuery.

A new book that aims more for the basics is JavaScript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland, published by Pogue Press and O'Reilly Media. This is a good book for JavaScript beginners, and it uses jQuery for many of its examples, particularly in the second half of the book.

Reuven M. Lerner, a longtime Web/database developer and consultant, is a PhD candidate in learning sciences at Northwestern University, studying on-line learning communities. He recently returned (with his wife and three children) to their home in Modi'in, Israel, after four years in the Chicago area.

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jjquery website

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Submitted by kashrut on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 20:29.

I think it should be www.jquery.com (not .org as in the article)

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