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For one lucky reader we have a free book called Learning jQuery 1.3 by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg . I have read and would recommend this book to anyone, it is not only good for anyone first learning jQuery but also good reference for any seasoned pro.
About the Book Learning jQuery 1.3
Revised and updated for version 1.3 of jQuery, this book teaches you the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.
The authors share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. The book introduces jQuery and shows how you can write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. It then guides you through CSS selectors and shows how to enhance the basic event handling mechanisms to give them a more elegant syntax. You will then learn to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and also to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery’s DOM modification methods. You will also learn to send and retrieve information with AJAX methods. The book will then step you through many detailed, real-world examples and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.
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To win this, all you have to do is write a comment below about why you would like to learn jQuery and from this we will select the winner, and have the book sent to you as soon as possible. Good luck and believe me this book is worth it.
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3 Jun, 2009
Use Prototype, but it’s not very cool. jQuery is awesome, i can do a very coll things. Reading forums, blogs is good. But this book is a realy good friend for web developers.
3 Jun, 2009
I already know some jQuery. Wouldn’t hurt to learn more advanced stuff, right?
4 Jun, 2009
jQuery confirm is the most popular javascript framework, i need to learn how to create and develop some function for my works, i hope and enjoy.
4 Jun, 2009
Just got a new job and realised how little I know about JQUERY…I need to keep on learning and evolving!!!!
4 Jun, 2009
Great comp!
I’ve been considering investing in this book for a while. The odd online tutorial is helpful, but you can’t beat a paper reference you can lose yourself in or dip into at will.
I consider JQuery to be the next big stepping stone in my development – To add that extra functionality to my sites.
4 Jun, 2009
I’d like to learn jQuery beyond the basics, I can do the basics like intergrating effects and other jQuery plugins but i’d love to be able to write the plugins.
I’d love to be able to move a site i’m working on at the moment that uses mootools to jQuery, I just need to become more advanced at jQuery and i’m sure this book would do it.
Cheers for the competition.
4 Jun, 2009
I have been looking at learning more about JQuery other than copy and paste. Looks like a good book to start with.
4 Jun, 2009
Spent too long script scraping and admiring other people’s handy work when it comes to jQuery. Need to start creating my own plugins and give something back.
4 Jun, 2009
im a student learning new things about the web. And i feel like jquery will help me take my static sites and make them dynamic. one of the many things im picking up for this summer break from school.
4 Jun, 2009
I really want to know more about jQuery and how to use it in my own works, I learn better through books than sites because I believe learning should be done this way, actually I like to feel what I’m learning!
hope I win!
4 Jun, 2009
I would like to read this book to learn the new event attachment model.
4 Jun, 2009
I know very little about jQuery so It would be great to learn more from this book
4 Jun, 2009
javascript framework
you make my life a pure joy
bless me with your book
Thats a haiku!
Not your taste? How about a good ol’ limerick!
There once was a dude from Australia
Who’s jquery skills were a failure
He had a premonition
he’d win Speckyboys competition
and score some jquery paraphernalia
4 Jun, 2009
I use jQuery at work, and for freelance jobs. But im always having to go back to the docs to find simple little things :(
4 Jun, 2009
I am allways looking to expand my knowledge and for new ways to enhance websites. JQuery fills both of these.
4 Jun, 2009
I would like to learn jQuery 1.3 to know all specific features of jQuery perfomance, technics and optimizations for making fast and reliable sites. Thanks!
4 Jun, 2009
I have made some prototypes where JQuery would come into great play and replace other solutions and therefore a book on the subject would help me alot!
4 Jun, 2009
Because I should have learned jQuery a long time ago :)
4 Jun, 2009
I use jquery already in my daily job, but I’m convinced I can do much better with it, so I want as many resources as I can so I can learn it just a little better.. (read a lot better)
4 Jun, 2009
I am a young upcoming graphic designer looking to get into web but i am a beginner when it comes to scripting of any sort. I know the basics and thats just about it, so i think knowing jquery would be really beneficial for future websites since i have had to outsource all scripting an associate I know
4 Jun, 2009
First thanks for this nice giveawy.. I hope really have such book because I’m bigginer in jQuery and I like so much everything done with it.. Hope can do like profesional by reading this book..
Thanks again..
4 Jun, 2009
I’m very interested to learn jQuery and I’ve also read that it’s good know to become good developer. But the problem is, I don’t have enough money to buy books. Yeah, I know there are some pdf books but I can’t spend more time in front of computer. That’s the reason I want to win this book.
4 Jun, 2009
I love playing with things to do with web. Absolutely love it. Have been dabbling in jQuery recently and WOW! It is an amazing little library. I use Prototype and script.aculo.us at work because it’s what they use, but all of us ( there is 4 working there ) have been checking out jQuery and just want to learn more.
I get the basics, but as someone else said in a comment bellow, nothing beats having that book with you while your working, and I’m sure having it in the office would be fantastic for us to start moving towards using jQuery more. I think it will help us better our work so much. Totally psyched. :)
4 Jun, 2009
I would like to learn to use jquery because it’s a lightweight and verysmart framework, it’s the future of javascript and I want to add a little bit of magic in the website i design
4 Jun, 2009
from all the JS frameworks I worked with, jQuery is by far the most intuitive one. I would really like to expand my knowledge in order to implement in for future projects. many thanks for this giveaway!
4 Jun, 2009
jQuery is an awesome tool for dynamic effects in webpages. I know the basics already, but a book would be perfect.
4 Jun, 2009
Being able to modify the ready-made jQuery scripts is what I am after as there are countless scripts on the Internet now and most of them fails to do exactly that one thing that you are after, that simple animation the other script has. I’ve heard about the book before and looking forward to read it… If I win of course ;)
4 Jun, 2009
Our company is ridiculously behind the times when it comes to using javascript to enhance interactions on our trading application and I think jQuery could solve a lot of our problems.
4 Jun, 2009
I know the basics of jQuery, but a book would be great to fill in any details I might have missed.
4 Jun, 2009
I have heard many good things about jQuery, and I want to learn it. I think it is useful to me.
4 Jun, 2009
I’m trying to refine and go deeper in web development, and jQuery is definetely something I need to master in order to build up-to-date websites. I’m reading tutorials online but I’d gladly read a good book instead! Thanks for that great giveaway!
4 Jun, 2009
I’m a tinkerer and, oddly enough, one of the things I’ve been tinkering with has been jQuery. It started out just taking apart an existing menu to figure out how it worked and now I’ve started taking apart other things too. Yes, I was THAT kid. Win or not, I’ll be taking a look into that book…or jQuery for Dummies, if such a thing exists *snorks*
4 Jun, 2009
I really like jQuery. It’s THE JavaScript framework for me. I’m very interested to learn more jQuery. Especially what’s new in 1.3.
4 Jun, 2009
I would really like to use jQuery for some Wordpress projects I have coming up!
4 Jun, 2009
jQuery is everywhere! Try to take a deeper look at jQuery for a long time. A great book seems to be the best reason :)
4 Jun, 2009
I know HTML and CSS but want to add some web 2.0 touches to my web development skills. I’m still in high school, but I want to learn as much as I can now so that maybe I can turn this into a career in the future.
4 Jun, 2009
Bla bla bla, everybody is talking about I want too be an astronaut, my company is noob and I want to impress with jQuery, I want to expand my knowledge. I will be honest after 5 years of pure javascript I said to myself I GIVE UP, I hate JS, no more… So I want to learn jQuery so I can help myself and let a framework do all the mambo jumbo stuff for me. So lets help the browser do that thing that he does very bad… USER EXPERIENCE
4 Jun, 2009
Because I want to improve my possibilities on offering services in the enterprise I recently created: Pablo Lara H Blog Managing and Illustration.
4 Jun, 2009
Learning jQuery because it lowers the entrance barrier to Javascript. It has a way of accomplishing what I’d like to accomplish simply and elegantly.
5 Jun, 2009
nice book, i want it!
5 Jun, 2009
I would love this book because as a Web Design student I am broke and would like to buy a Mac. I cold put the money saved from buying this book towards buying a Mac :)
5 Jun, 2009
And I meant Could..not cold, dang typos!
5 Jun, 2009
I have been watching many great uses of jQuery like the sliders and I want to learn how to creat one but I dont know where to start learning jQuery and a good place to learn it. As you are recommending this Book, i am very sure that this will help me in learning jQuery
5 Jun, 2009
I’ve managed to learn allot from the internet, but my books are invaluable. Sometimes everyones conflicting methods can be overwhelming. There is something about a well written and reliable book that just makes information easier to absorb.
jQuery is one of those I can’t seem to pin down because everyone has different things to say about it. I usually resort to just using stuff that I find online. This really irritates me that I didn’t make put it together myself so don’t quite understand how it works.
I’ve heard from many people that this book comes highly recommended, would be cool to have a desktop reference as a starting point.
5 Jun, 2009
I have been using jquery for the last two months and think it’s awesome, it’s a perfect javascript framework for web designers
6 Jun, 2009
I have been a web developer for a little over 3 years. All of my current web development knowledge is self taught, including my JavaScript and AJAX knowledge. Currently I am enemployed and when I am talking to a potential employer quite a few have asked if I am familiar with jQuery. I unfortunately have to tell them no. It’s not because I don’t want to learn it or anything like that. I’ve been wanting to get into jQuery for a while now and I’ve even done a few minor tutorials I’ve found on the web. I feel that I would learn a lot more about jQuery if I had a book about it. So that is why I would really appreciate winning this book. I feel that I and any potential employer would greatly benefit from me learning jQuery.
6 Jun, 2009
Everytime I see a website do something and I think to myself, “that’s cool, I should do that on my site”, it turns out that cool thing was done with jQuery. I’ve picked up a little here and there from the Web, but having a solid resource from which to get a good foundation would be immensely helpful.
7 Jun, 2009
I like this book.
From basic to advanced.
From zero to hero. :)
8 Jun, 2009
I want to build a solid knowledge and be able to have the maximum effect without any other tool to learn except ruby
8 Jun, 2009
In a decade of coding I’ve invented many things. Unfortunately all of them are wheels. I’d love to learn jQuery so I can actually spend my time coding something new.
8 Jun, 2009
I know some JavaScript, but would really like to expand my knowledge by learning jQuery. I’m just starting out with it, and Learning jQuery 1.3 would really help me along.
10 Jun, 2009
Learning jQuery 1.3 would be the ideal learning resource. I’m a real beginner at jQuery and constantly turn to plugins as a lifeline, or heckle my expert brother who’s a web designer/developer guru. I’m sure he’d also be thankful if I won this prize! This book would certainly give me a better understanding of jQuery, so I can broaden my skills and become a more complete web designer/developer.
10 Jun, 2009
Thanks for the giveaway. I deserve the book, but I’m sure everyone here who likes jQuery and what it can do deserves it just as much. Just needs to get into the hands of someone who will actually use it.
I’m going to use it to build my new dot com called seraphin. When done, I’ll send over the link so you can see the cool new ways I’ve implemented jQuery. :)
10 Jun, 2009
because I’ve seen lots of tricks with jQuery, implemented some plugins and want to be able to write and distribute my own plugins. givin’ back to the awesome jquery community. that’s why
10 Jun, 2009
easy to user
11 Jun, 2009
I’m a poor college student studying web development, and I’m starting to learn jQuery but couldn’t afford to buy any more books. It would be nice to get a really great book for free. Thanks!
12 Jun, 2009
La verdad es que se muy poco de JQuery, pero sin duda volverme un experto, es mi mayor reto; el libro podría ser mi aliado para lograrlo.
14 Jun, 2009
After (almost) mastering CSS, Javascript seems a bit daunting right now. I have slowly started to play with jQuery but I’m sure such a book would be a big help for implementing it on the few new websites I’m working on!
15 Jun, 2009
I’d love to win this as I’m just starting out learning jquery and javascript
16 Jun, 2009
Because it’s easy to learn, but lack of documentation on these opensource project hinders development. Using jQuery 1.3 book i can get past that and introduce my clients to a user interaction making them fall in love with my work and me with jQuery 1.3 ;)
21 Jun, 2009
jQuery has make our life easier for making efficient and professional websites with extended tools and development. That’s why I like it
23 Jun, 2009
A friend of mine can wrangle anything with jQuery. I’ve been slowly progressing with it, but a focused book like this would be awesome! Just what I am looking for.
24 Jun, 2009
I liked jQuery, for me is the best java script framework.
30 Jun, 2009
Im going to download it there is something called warez lol
1 Jul, 2009
I’m already using some basic jquery plugins in my websites, but really woluld help to learn more.
2 Jul, 2009
i’m a begainner in learning web languages like html,dhtml,php,javascript.i want to learn about jquery.so,i need this book
3 Jul, 2009
I may not write plugins or do something heavy with jquery. But I love ajax calls [the beauty of jquery!]. Most of all I love using jquery to make asp.net web applications more user friendly and interactive. I believe jquery will be a great part to evolve asp.net into web 2.0. That’s why I don’t miss jquery (+asp.net) related articles over internet. If I get a book, I will enjoy from beginning to end as a sweet story! And I would sure cover what I learn in my blog also.
5 Jul, 2009
great question
i m a php developer and i m feeling very exciting whenever i use jquery in my page or visit any web site where i found the script that are written using jquery like uploading multiple images or cropping the image and i m very querious about if a made my own scripts by using jquery.
13 Jul, 2009
I am a new hire at a software company. One requirement is knowledge of jQuery, which I have minimal knowledge of. This would greatly benefit me in the short and long run at my new job
14 Jul, 2009
because i want to develop asp.net site more and more efficiantly
25 Aug, 2009
I like to develop application with the use of javascript and ajax.but now jquery is another option for me to give my application a new look and feel.if i got this book i also share my knowledge with other team members.
10 Nov, 2009
I know the javascript and css .But I silent that with help of the jquery I got interactive output with out all page post back and Get faster way to data. This book vary help ful to learn jquery.Thank you for help