If you want to learn JavaScript, our first recommendation is Murach"s JavaScript and jQuery. It teaches you enough about JavaScript to get the most from jQuery, which is the JavaScript library that most professionals use. It also shows you how to use jQuery UI for widgets and interactions and how to use jQuery Mobile to build mobile web sites.Of course, there"s a lot more to JavaScript than using it with jQuery. So if you want to learn more about JavaScript, Murach"s JavaScript and DOM Scripting is the book for you. Its first 12 chapters show you how to use all aspects of the JavaScript language, including how to use all of the methods for numbers, strings and dates; how create and use your own functions and objects; how to use regular expressions and validate all types of data; and much more.Then, the last 8 chapters show you how to use JavaScript for DOM scripting. There, you"ll learn how to build JavaScript applications that use drop-down menus, rotate headlines, sort tables, provide animation, and more! You"ll learn how to create your own event-handling libraries of browser-compatible code, so you can draw on it as needed. And you"ll learn how to take advantage of free, third-party libraries like Dojo.As you go through this book, you"ll review the complete code for 20 professional applications. They run the gamut from business applications, like object-oriented forms validation, to entertainment apps, like a rotating, 3-dimensional carousel of images that the user can control with the mouse or keystrokes. This is heady stuff that will take you to another level of expertise.