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JavaScript Projects for Kids

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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JavaScript Projects for Kids

By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

JavaScript is the most widely-used programming language for web development and that's not all! It has evolved over the years and is now being implemented in an array of environments from websites to robotics. Learning JavaScript will help you see the broader picture of web development. This book will take your imagination to new heights by teaching you how to work with JavaScript from scratch. It will introduce you to HTML and CSS to enhance the appearance of your applications. You’ll then use your skills to build on a cool Battleship game! From there, the book will introduce you to jQuery and show you how you can manipulate the DOM. You’ll get to play with some cool stuff using Canvas and will learn how to make use of Canvas to build a game on the lines of Pacman, only a whole lot cooler! Finally, it will show you a few tricks with OOP to make your code clean and will end with a few road maps on areas you can explore further.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript Projects for Kids
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

HTML


HTML is a markup language. What does it mean? Well, a markup language processes and presents texts using specific codes for formatting, styling, and layout design. There are a lot of markup languages (for example, Business Narrative Markup Language (BNML), ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), Opera Binary Markup Language (OBML), Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML), Virtual Human Markup Language (VHML), and so on); however, in modern web, we use HTML. HTML is based on Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). SGML was basically used to design document papers.

Note

There are a number of HTML versions. HTML 5 is the latest version. Throughout this book, we will use the latest version of HTML.

Before you start learning HTML, let me ask you to think of your favorite website. What does the website contain? A few web pages? You may see some text, few images, one or two text fields, buttons, and some more elements on each of the web pages. Each of these elements are formatted by HTML.

Let...