• For complete novices
• No special equipment or software needed beyond a Web browser
• Teaches principles of good programming practice
• Lots of fun!

Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser is a book about general principles of good programming practice for complete novices. The target reader is likely a twelve or thirteen year old, who is just starting to get curious about what makes a computer work-or an office worker who has been using computer applications for years, and would like to spend some time delving deeper into what makes them tick.

Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser will teach the basics of programming using JavaScript. The software used for teaching programming will be JavaScript, which can be written using any text editor, and displayed in almost any Web browser, regardless of operating system. Despite the unfortunate word "script" in the language name, in actuality JavaScript is a modern programming language. While displaying the results of running JavaScript programs in Web pages will be used to motivate readers-a simple example is changing text when the user moves the mouse over it in a Web page-very emphatically, this is not a book about programming JavaScript.

Contents

• Getting Started
• Understanding Types, Variables, and Statements
• Using Conditional Statements
• Working with Loops
• Understanding Functions
• Programming with Arrays
• Working with Objects
• Understanding Events and Event-Driven Programming
• Manipulating Strings
• Debugging and Exceptions
• Programming with JavaScript
• Index