A Quick Look at jQuery

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” (Joseph Priestley)

There is a good reason that jQuery is called the “Write Less, Do More” JavaScript Library. It makes doing the thinks you normally do with JavaScript – grabbing an element or a collection of elements, adding and removing CSS classes to elements, handling events – not only easy but natural. jQuery “gets” Ajax in a way that I haven't seen other libraries “get” it.

In this talk, we explore the jQuery AJAX library. We start at the Core, and then move on to Selectors, Traversing, Manipulation, Events, and more. The fluent interfaces make jQuery a great tool for beginners and advanced developers alike.

About Scott Davis

Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.

Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.

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