If staring down JavaScript leaves you unsteady, take heart. Mat Marquis is at your side, offering a detailed yet approachable tour around this essential language. Make your way through plenty of practical examples, as you pick up syntax rules, the fundamentals of scripting, and how to handle data types and loops. You'll emerge clear-eyed and confident-and ready to get to work.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Getting Set Up

CHAPTER 2 Understanding Data Types

CHAPTER 3 Conditional Statements

CHAPTER 4 Loops

CHAPTER 5 DOM Scripting

About the Author

Mat "Wilto" Marquis is an amateur boxer, aspiring chef, halfway decent carpenter, and passable antique British motorcycle mechanic-when not making fast, accessible, responsive websites. He keeps busy.As chair of the Responsive Issues Community Group, Mat spearheaded the effort to bring native responsive image solutions to the HTML5 specification, later going on to facilitate browser implementations and oversee the addition of native responsive image techniques to major CMSes. He has spoken at An Event Apart, edited for A List Apart, and published books with A Book Apart, completing what he describes as "like an EGOT, but for putting semicolons in the right places."