Improve Your Skills: 25 jQuery Beginner Tutorials Roundup

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jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library that highlights the interaction between JavaScript and HTML. With jQuery you can write less and do more. jQuery has become an active trend and it’s features are growing rapidly.

I have assembled 25 beginner level tutorials for you to start knowing and exploiting jQuery and it’s powerful tools. After reading these guides and tutorials you will be able to proceed and start testing jQuery’s limits.

1. jQuery for Complete Beginners: Part 1

This is the first part of our series walking you through the process of learning the hugely popular JavaScript library jQuery from scratch. This series is aimed at people who have a strong knowledge of HTML and CSS and will include such topics like what is jQuery and how to include it into your code.

2. jQuery for Complete Beginners: Part 2

In this lesson you are going to learn how to select elements through their relationship with the element we are already interacting with. This may seem complicated, but it’s in fact very straightforward.

3. jQuery for Complete Beginners: Part 3

In this part you are going to put the skills you’ve learned in two past parts into practice and create a basic accordion.

4. jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series

Fifteen video tutorials that teach you exactly how to use the jQuery library. You will start by downloading the library and eventually work our way up to creating an AJAX style-switcher.

5. jQuery Tutorials for Designers

This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.

6. New to jQuery? Don’t be Scurred…

Once you get the jQuery basics down it’s not very hard to pull of some neat effects. Soh Tanaka teaches you 4 basic jQuery features.

7. Getting Started With jQuery

This guide is an introduction to the jQuery library. Basic knowledge of JavaScript and the document object model (DOM) is required. It starts from ground up and tries to explain details where necessary. It covers a simple hello world example, selector and event basics, AJAX, FX and usage and authoring of plugins.

8. Getting Started with jQuery

In this article, author will be introducing and laying the groundwork for advanced JavaScript development with jQuery. In this article he’s going beyond just quick-start syntax and instead provide a solid overview of jQuery and discuss the benefits of using such a library.

9. jQuery Essentials Presentation

Modern and good-looking presentation assembling all the summary of jQuery features and power.

10. Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks

As you get more familiar with the basics you’ll need to learn some tricks and cheats. This article will assemble all the jQuery tips and tricks and cheat sheets that web offers in a single page.

11. Questions and Answers From the List

Answers to some common questions beginners have about jQuery.

12. jQuery Tutorial for Beginners: Nothing But the Goods

This fast-paced tutorial should be able to get beginners up and running with jQuery very quickly, while also providing a good overview of what jQuery is capable of.

13. Introduction to jQuery

This is a very basic introduction to including jQuery on your web page and getting started writing a few functions.

14. Intro to jQuery 2

Continuation of exploring the possibilities of jQuery. Revisit some of the old functions and make them do some smarter things. Explore IF/ELSE statement, AJAX-y .load() function, the CSS function, and then finish off by writing out your own custom function and going over how that layer of abstraction can help you keep your code clean.

15. Simple Guide: How To Get Started With jQuery

In this article, you will have a look at how to get started with jQuery, and writing your first script!

16. Selectors, Animation, and AJAX – jQuery Tutorial And Examples

For part two of our jQuery series, you will get a look at some special selectors, the animation method, and simple AJAX calls. Be sure to check out the demo for each section for an idea of how you could implement some of these ideas and scripts!

17. What Is jQuery?

This article provides a gentle introduction to jQuery and its uses.

18. Getting Started with jQuery

Find out how to start coding with the jQuery JavaScript library. Shows how to install jQuery, and explores jQuery objects and the jQuery() function. Example code included.

19. How jQuery Beginners can Test and Improve their Code

Making small changes to your code improves the readability and/or performance significantly. Here are some tips to get you on your way to optimizing your code.

20. Getting Friendly With jQuery

This article is the summation of Rajesh Pillai’s notes collected during my attempt to learn jQuery through various books and websites.

21. jQuery for Beginners – Step by Step Tutorial

Three series tutorial teaching you the basics step by step.

22. Beginner’s Guide to jQuery

Another quick guide introducing you to jQuery.

23. jQuery For Absolute Beginners

This video tutorial will show beginners exactly how to get started with jQuery.

24. JQuery Basics

25. The jQuery Basics

This tutorials teaches you some basic jQuery uses like showing/hiding and animation.

Further Resources

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• Soh Tanaka
• Net.Tutsplus
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