5 jQuery Books You Must Read

Here is a complied list of 5 jQuery books for beginner, experienced and front end developers, to get your hands on.

jQuery: Novice to Ninja, Second Edition

jQuery: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition is the perfect book to jump-start your journey into jQuery. You’ll learn all the basics, so you’ll be able to truly appreciate the power of this JavaScript framework. Then you’ll move on to more advanced techniques, such as plugin development and the creation of almost every conceivable UI widget.

jQuery IN Action, Second Edition

jQuery in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced introduction and guide. It shows you how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. The book's unique "lab pages" anchor the explanation of each new concept in a practical example. You'll learn how jQuery interacts with other tools and frameworks and how to build jQuery plugins.

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual

JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects—but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of prewritten JavaScript code.

jQuery Cookbook

jQuery Cookbook starts with the basics and then moves to practical use cases with tested solutions to common web development hurdles. You also get recipes on advanced topics, such as methods for applying jQuery to large projects.

jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery

jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery has been specially revised for version 1.8 of jQuery UI. It is written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy-to-follow steps.

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Download jQuery Succinctly - Free eBook to learn jQuery

Books are your best friend and it is the best way to learn about anything. So to learn jQuery, now you can download a free ebook called "jQuery Succinctly" by "Cody Lindley" to learn jQuery. This book is simple quick-start guide to intermediate and advanced jQuery development.

Overview

jQuery Succinctly was written to express, in short-order, the concepts essential to intermediate and advanced jQuery development. Its purpose is to instill in you, the reader, practices that jQuery developers take as common knowledge. Each chapter contains concepts essential to becoming a seasoned jQuery developer.

This book is intended for two types of readers. The first is someone who has read introductory material on jQuery and is looking for the next logical step. The second type of reader is a JavaScript developer, already versed in another library, now trying to quickly learn jQuery.

Table of Contents

1. Core jQuery
2. Selecting
3. Traversing
4. Manipulation
5. HTML Forms
6. Events
7. jQuery and the Web Browser
8. Plugins
9. Effects
10. AJAX

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Recommended jQuery Books

Someone has rightly said "A book is the best friend". Books are great way to learn things. If you want to learn jquery and become master of it, below is the list of books I recommend to learn jQuery.

• Learning jQuery 1.3- This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions to each of them making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions.
  
• jQuery Reference 1.4- This book is a companion to Learning jQuery 1.3. jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide digs deeper into the library, taking you through the syntax specifications and following up with detailed discussions. You'll discover the untapped possibilities that jQuery 1.4 makes available, and polish your skills as you return to this guide time and again.
• jQuery Cookbook- jQuery Cookbook starts with the basics and then moves to practical use cases with tested solutions to common web development hurdles. You also get recipes on advanced topics, such as methods for applying jQuery to large projects.
• jQuery in Action 2nd edition- jQuery in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced introduction to jQuery that will take your JavaScript programming to the next level.You'll learn how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. This comprehensive guide also teaches you how jQuery interacts with other tools and frameworks and how to build jQuery plugins.
• jQuery UI 1.7- Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets from the jQuery User Interface library.
  

Read these great books and increase your knowledge about jQuery.

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