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Packt celebrates jQuery in October with exclusive book offer
Packt has this week announced a series of discounts and promotions to herald the publication of the Learning jQuery, Third Edition in October. Packt will offer readers the exclusive discounts of 20% and 30% off the cover price of all jQuery print books, including the just published third edition of the Learning jQuery book, for limited period only.
jQuery is a powerful, yet easy-to-use JavaScript library that helps web developers and designers add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and greatly reducing development time.
Learning jQuery, Third Edition, written by Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg, is revised and updated for version 1.6 of jQuery. Readers will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to their pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left one baffled, this book will guide them past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.
“jQuery is one of the topics Packt remains committed to publishing on, offering more interesting books that will help the diverse needs of jQuery users. The set of jQuery related books we’ve recently published shows our continued commitment to the topic area, and we intend to publish important jQuery books, such as the Learning jQuery, Third Edition, for a long time to come”, said Packt Open Source publisher Doug Paterson.
For more information on jQuery October and the discounts being offered throughout October, please visit: - https://www.packtpub.com/news/jquery-month
jQuery Plugin Book
Recently, I’ve received a book from Packt. “jQuery 1.4 Plugin Development – Beginner’s Guide” which is an eBook written by Giulio Bai. Having a book for concepts and examples is essential in learning jQuery Plugin. I recommend you reading this book for an in-depth understanding of this subject. The first Chapter of the book is about the introduction on jQuery. Chapter 2, is mainly focus on the basic of writing jQuery plugins. For those who want to have a formal understanding of jQuery plugins should read this chapter carefully. You can find a detailed introduction on the concepts of two diferent types of plugin: function plugins and method plugins. You can following the steps in chapter 3 to try your first jQuery plugin. The example provided is quite easy to follow. If you have specific interested topics, you are recommended to pick some topics in the following chapters of the book. Chapters 4-12 are related to different types of plugins: Image plugins, audio plugins, video plugins, form plugins, menu plugins, navigation plugins, animation plugins, utility plugins, etc. This book save us a lot of time from collecting different type of jQuery plugins. Thus, we can focus on those plugins that we feel interested.
The most valuable materials are always in the later part of a book. So, if you turn the pages to later part, for instance, Chapter 13, you’ll find a top 10 list of jQuery Plugins recommend by the author, Guilio. In this chapter, he had shared the findings and thoughts which he had spent a lot of time and effort before in studying those top jQuery Plugins. And he will tell you what’s the secrets for top 10 jQuery plugins. I recommend people reading this book. And I think this book is especially useful for those who have the basic knowledge of jQuery and wants to have a in-depth understanding of jQuery and jQuery plugins. If you have spare time, you can try the “pop quiz” section provided in the latter part of every chapter. And you’ll find a lot of fun in do the pop quiz, too. Here is the link and cover of the book  |