Query is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

The above statement is from the official jQuery website.  This course will try to show you how true this statement is.  With jQuery, it only take a single day to turn the average javascript hobbyist into a very powerful developer capable of developing mind blowing user interfaces and AJAX application.

During this training, we will first focus on the jQuery object and on the jQuery selector API.  We will then traverse and manipulate the DOM in various ways before developing a full scale Ajax multiple file uploader application!

The book

The book used in this training is "Head First jQuery" from O'Reilly Media. 

Table of Content

This is the table of content of the book as taken from the o'Reilley website.

Chapter 1 Getting Started with jQuery: Web Page Action

Chapter 2 Selectors and Methods: Grab and Go

Chapter 3 jQuery Events and Functions: Making Things Happen on Your Page

Chapter 4 jQuery Web Page Manipulation: Mod the DOM

Chapter 5 jQuery Effects and Animation: A Little Glide in Your Stride

Chapter 6 jQuery and JavaScript: Luke jQuery, I Am Your Father!

Chapter 7 Custom Functions for Custom Effects: What Have You Done for Me Lately?

Chapter 8 jQuery and Ajax: Please Pass the Data

Chapter 9 Handling JSON Data: Client, Meet Server

Chapter 10 jQuery UI: Extreme Form Makeover

Chapter 11 jQuery and APIs: Objects, Objects Everywhere