Fundamentals for Great jQuery Development

Interested in diving into jQuery development, but not exactly sure where to start? Check out this video from Microsoft program manager, Damian Edwards.

In this 50 minute live coding demo, Damian will start off with an overview of the JavaScript fundamentals that every jQuery developer should know. Next, he'll show you some of the features that make jQuery the most popular JavaScript library today.

A few of the topics covered in this video include:

• Fundamentals of JavaScript
• JavaScript functions
• Objects
• Scope and closures
• CSS Selectors
• Mouse events
• jQuery animation

Check out the other presentations from this event:

• 6-minute jQuery Jumpstart with the slideUp effect
• Yehuda Katz on the State of jQuery and What's to Come
• What's this jQuery? Where it came from and how it will drive innovation

About this event
This video comes from the event Learn About jQuery: The way JavaScript Should Be held at Microsoft on November 10, 2010, co-organized by Marakana, and presented by the San Francisco HTML5 User Group, San Francisco Java User Group, and the The SF PHP Meetup Group.

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