JavaScript & jQuery, by David Sawyer McFarland
Excellent book, McFarland a most suitable author, and O'Reilly a great publisher. O'Reilly really did change the nature of computer books when they started.
Deals with the Ajax system too, requesting BSON's directly from the server.
We don't have that much else which runs client side. And this did not start with Sun Microsystems and it originally had nothing to do with Java.
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JavaScript & jQuery, by David Sawyer McFarland
So this is a really good book. Lots of pages, thin paper, but very easy to read. Great intro book.
Read through the stuff about the language itself. Arrays can have mixed types of variables in them. You can have nested arrays. And you can add or subtract members off of either end.
To me this suggests that arrays are being handled more like linked lists, internally. Slower and more memory. In most languages you cannot do things like this. But if you wrote a module in an object oriented language you could make something to allow this.
What I am not seeing are pointers, objects, classes, structures, methods. I think JavaScript has these, but I do not really know.
So browsers IE, Mozilla, Chrome, Safari, they all have control panels to show errors, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
So 'node.js', something like this is to make JavaScript run server side.
Ready to read now about the library JQuery. But want to look for more about JavaScript.
Don't have that much for client side. ClojureScript compiles to JavaScript. And there is Java for client side, I think called Applets. But not many seem to use this, security often set to block it.
MongoDB and CouchDB can run full JavaScript Stack, meaning data requests coming directly from JavaScript client side.
mention of 'Notepad++' for windows.
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