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In the last lesson, you learned about where JavaScript goes and how it looks. Now it’s time to start learning the language. In this lesson, you’ll learn how JavaScript stores information, how it makes decisions based on that information, and how to change images based on user interaction.
Ready? It’s time to learn the fundamentals of computer programming. First stop, variables.
If you’re like me, you’re reading this on your bright-red custom-built laptop in a soothing rosemary-scented bubble bath, and you’re wondering, “Why do I want another interpreted programming language? I can find my way around Perl and PHP and maybe a little Python. And Unix shell scripting. I feel fine. Why do people keep talking about Ruby?”
Continue Reading “Ruby on Rails for Beginners” »Version control is a sine qua non of serious software development, but casual developers and even non-programmers can use it to improve their lives. In its simplest form, a version control tool maintains an archive of the history of a project — not just its current state, but every milestone along the way. So if you realize that the progress you’ve made in the last three weeks is all wrong, you can effortlessly go back to what you had then; or just glance at it and harvest the good parts.
Continue Reading “Using Git Version Control” »Depending on who you ask, HTML 5 is either the next important step toward creating a more semantic web or a disaster that’s going to trap the web in yet another set of incomplete tags and markup soup.
The problem with both sides of the argument is that very few sites are using HTML 5 in the wild, so the theoretical solutions to its perceived problems remain largely untested.
That said, it isn’t hard to see both the benefits and potential hang-ups with the next generation of web markup tools.
This code was written based on a template by John Resig. The original can be found at John Resig’s addEvent function website.
The code, and the template, are referred to in Webmonkey’s JavaScript Events reference page. In this example, the onFocus event fires whenever a form field gains focus, such as with a mouse click inside it or tabbing from another field.
Continue Reading “JavaScript Event – Focus” »
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