See for yourself why Murach books are a favorite of professionals, students, and instructors. This Murach book teaches you how to use jQuery, the library that's used for most heavy-duty JavaScript coding today. After a quick review of the JavaScript essentials, it presents the jQuery and jQuery UI (User Interface) skills that allow you to add all kinds of popular features to your web pages: image swaps, image rollovers, slide shows, accordions, tabs, carousels, and much more. Then, it shows you how to work with Ajax, JSON, APIs, and jQuery Mobile whenever you need to.
Murach's jQuery