posted by steve | Category: Current Projects |

I’m currently working on a new book for Microsoft Press. The book is JavaScript Step by Step and should be out late 2007 or early 2008. The book is, yes, a book on JavaScript. It’s a beginner-level book and though still taking shape, the book will cover everything that one might need to know in order to do some fun stuff with JavaScript.

For those that have read my books before, you’ll know that I like to cover more than the basics of the topic at hand. So rather than just learning how to create some silly JavaScript widget, you’ll also learn why that widget works like it does. The reason I do this is simple: I believe that if you want to just learn how to code some JavaScript flavor of the week, then you’ll just go copy the code from another page. There’s little use in me simply dumping scripts into a book without any context. Therefore, I’m attempting to add substance to the book so that you can learn how and why the JavaScript does what it does.