Head First jQuery by R. Benedetti and R. Cranley

Summary:jQuery, simply, for beginners

It might sound strange, but first thing I am grateful to Ryan and Ronan is mentioning TextWrangler in the beginning of the book. This way I got familiar with very simple, useful, and free (free as in free beer) editor for Mac OS :)

I haven’t used jQuery before, and I wanted to see what it is all about. First of all, I like to learn by examples – and you got them here. All in one piece – zipped – directly on your hard drive from the Head First Lab web page (each example contains corresponding jQuery library). This is nice. You simply don’t have to copy-paste everything you see in the book into your text editor. When it comes to the content. Well, this is always hard thing to judge. I know people who hate Head First series. They say it is not sophisticated enough. I am, on the contrary, a great fan of Head First. jQuery, like any other Head First series book, gives you simple, straight overview of the topic. OK, it will not provide you with as much text as other books, but hey, “A picture is worth a thousand words”. And you will find lots of them here. However, if you consider yourself a hacker, don’t buy it. It’s rather for beginners. If you are a beginner – I’d consider buying it.

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