If you re comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the language especially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce overhead, and make your application code more efficient.

This book explores event handling, prototypes, and working with the DOM and AJAX through examples and lots of code. You ll learn common conventions and patterns in JavaScript and if you ve never coded with JavaScript...