Coding JavaScript: Along with an introduction to HTML and CSS

HTML gives a page its structure, CSS shapes its appearance, and JavaScript adds behavior. Tom Henricksen’s Coding JavaScript introduces all three, starting with the web foundations before moving into JavaScript’s core language features and more advanced concepts.

Start with the building blocks of the web

The opening section revisits HTML basics, highlights selected HTML5 changes, and explores tables, divs, and spans. The book then turns to CSS, including its fundamentals, the box model, and CSS3. Together, these early sections establish useful context for the JavaScript material that follows.

From first syntax to deeper JavaScript ideas

JavaScript coverage begins with variables and values, functions, conditionals, and loops. Later chapters take up scope and closures, then broaden into objects, arrays, type conversion and coercion, strings, numbers, arrow functions, strict equality, JSON, and the spread and rest operators.

A guided return to fundamentals

The author explains that he returned to HTML and CSS basics repeatedly in his own development work, and frames the book as a quick-start guide to the essentials. That perspective gives the subject matter a practical through-line: first refresh the page technologies, then build familiarity with the JavaScript concepts used to write code.

Who may find it useful

This introduction may suit readers beginning to explore web development, as well as developers who want a concise review spanning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Its progression from foundational topics to more involved language features offers a clear route through a wide range of introductory material.