by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 13, 2014 | Beginner's Mind, Featured, Programming
Ready to learn how to program? Or, perhaps you already know how to program in another language, like Ruby or PHP or Python, but need to know JavaScript? Then Head First JavaScript Programming is for you. Head First JavaScript Programming starts with the basics...
by Elisabeth Robson | Dec 28, 2013 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Reader Question
A reader of Head First HTML and CSS wrote in today to ask about web fonts. Web fonts is a fairly new feature supported by browsers that allows you to include non-standard fonts in your web page. It works like this: you specify the font you want in your CSS using the...
by Elisabeth Robson | Feb 9, 2013 | Beginner's Mind, blog, JavaScript
In a previous post, I mentioned that Twitter is changing their API so that all requests to the API will now require authentication. Unfortunately, what this means is that you can no longer use JSONP to request timeline and search data from Twitter (which we showed you...
by admin | Jul 10, 2012 | Beginner's Mind, blog, CSS, Featured, HTML, Web
Exciting news: we’ve partnered with one of our favorite online training sites, macprovideo.com, to produce a set of HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials, and our tutorials are up and ready for you. You’ll find the first, a FREE, hour-long, turbo-charged quickstart on HTML and CSS...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 7, 2012 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Programming, Reader Question
Another great question from a reader of Head First HTML5 Programming is about passing functions as values. This comes up when using the Geolocation API: the way you get your location is to call the built-in function getCurrentPosition() and pass in two arguments, both...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 6, 2012 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Programming, Reader Question
A couple of weeks ago, I got a great question from a reader of Head First HTML5 Programming: What is a API? Is it like a constructor function or is it just an object or something else? We use the term “API” frequently in Head First HTML5 Programming...
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