The essential guide to HTML5 : using games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript / Jeanine Meyer.
Meyer, Jeanine, author.
2022
QA76.76.H94
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Title The essential guide to HTML5 : using games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript / Jeanine Meyer.
Author Meyer, Jeanine, author.
Edition Third edition.
ISBN 9781484287224 (electronic bk.)
1484287223 (electronic bk.)
9781484287217
1484287215
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8722-4
Published [New York, New York] : Apress, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (501 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-1-4842-8722-4 doi
Call Number QA76.76.H94
Dewey Decimal Classification 006.7/4
Summary Gain a deep, practical knowledge of the basic tools used for webpages: hypertext markup language (HTML5), cascading style sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. This updated version includes new and improved games and exercises, and will serve total beginners as well as people with some programming language experience, but not familiar with the combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll begin at an introductory level with the focus on technical features as well as programming techniques. Each chapter features a familiar game such as Rock-Paper-Scissors, Craps, Memory, and Blackjack or generic examples such as working with Mazes. Other projects include constructing and saving a maze; a basic word guessing game; ballistic games (Cannonball and Slingshot); a quiz requiring items to be put in order; and an animation demonstration featuring a ball, photo or video clip bouncing within a rectangle. The Appendix contains examples of advanced techniques such as Scalar Vector Graphics programs displaying the HTML5 Logo and a cartoon figure, each of which can be changed dynamically, and mathematical techniques for calculating if a move crosses a line and re-adjusting an arrangement of circles and arrows. The exposition on each example in the chapters and the Appendix includes screen shots and tables revealing the structure of the program and statement by statement explanation of code. The book also contains suggestions for using the concepts and techniques to build your own programs. If you follow through with your own ideas, you will develop solid programming skills for building websites and for learning other programming languages, including the next version of HTML and current and future JavaScript frameworks, libraries and tools.
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Intro
Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Basics
Keywords
Introduction
Critical Requirements
HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Features
Basic HTML Structure and Tags
Using Cascading Style Sheets
JavaScript Programming
Using a Text Editor
Building the Applications
Testing and Uploading the Application
Summary
Chapter 2: Dice Game
Introduction
Critical Requirements
HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Features
Pseudorandom Processing and Mathematical Expressions

Variables and Assignment Statements
Programmer-Defined Functions
Conditional Statements: if and switch
Drawing on the Canvas
Displaying Text Output Using a Form
Building the Application and Making It Your Own
Throwing a Single Die
Throwing Two Dice
The Complete Game of Craps
Making the Application Your Own
Testing and Uploading the Application
Summary
Chapter 3: Bouncing Ball
Introduction
Critical Requirements
HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Features
Drawing a Ball or an Image or Images
Gradients with a Side Trip to Explain Arrays

Setting Up a Timing Event
Calculating a New Position and Collision Detection
Starting, Positioning and Restarting the video with use of an anonymous function
Validation
Stopping and Resuming Animation Triggered by Buttons
HTML Page Reload
Preloading Images
Building the Application and Making It Your Own
Testing and Uploading the Application
Summary
Chapter 4: Cannonball and Slingshot
Introduction
Critical Requirements
HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Features
Arrays and Programmer-Defined Objects
Rotations and Translations for Drawing

Drawing Line Segments
Mouse Events for Pulling on the Slingshot
Changing the List of Items Displayed Using Array Splice
Distance Between Points
Building the Application and Making It Your Own
Cannonball: With Cannon, Angle, and Speed
Slingshot: Using a Mouse to Set Parameters of Flight
Testing and Uploading the Application
Summary
Chapter 5: The Memory (aka Concentration) Game
Introduction
Critical Requirements
HTML5, CSS, JavaScript Features
Representing Cards
Using Date for Timing
Providing a Pause
Drawing Text
Drawing Polygons

Shuffling Cards
Implementing Clicking on a Card
Preventing Certain Types of Cheating
Building the Application and Making It Your Own
Testing and Uploading the Application
Summary
Chapter 6: Quiz
Introduction
Critical Requirements for a Quiz Game
HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Features
Storing and Retrieving Information in Arrays
Creating HTML During Program Execution
Using CSS in the Style Element
Responding to Player Moves
Presenting Audio and Video
Checking the Player's Answer
Building the Application and Making It Your Own

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