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MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide

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MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

MooTools is a simple-to-use JavaScript library, ideal for people with basic JavaScript skills who want to elevate their web applications to a superior level. If you're a newcomer to MooTools looking to build dynamic, rich, and user-interactive web site applications this beginner's guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

MooTools resources


In order to take full advantage of MooTools, you should check out these excellent resources:

MooTools Docs

MooTools Docs (http://mootools.net/docs/) contains the official MooTools documentation. Created by the MooTools team, it's the most comprehensive online resource for MooTools syntax and usage. As you write in MooTools, you'll find that this is a handy resource to have open for quickly finding references to particular MooTools code.

MooTools Users Google groups

The MooTools Users Google groups (http://groups.google.com/group/mootools-users) is a discussion group on the topic of MooTools. You'll find a variety of topics here and if you run into specific MooTools problems, it's a great place to seek help.

mooforum

mooforum (http://www.mooforum.net/) is the unofficial forum for MooTools. If you're looking for help on specific things or simply want to interact with other MooTools developers, you should sign up for a free user account.

The MooTorial

The MooTorial (http://mootorial.com/wiki/) is an online wiki-style tutorial on the MooTools framework written by Aaron Newton. It's a good starting point for learning the basics of the MooTools framework and is a great online supplement to the things you learn throughout this book.