index.Rmd

---
lang: en
title: 'Client-Side Web Development'
author: "[Joel Ross](http://faculty.washington.edu/joelross/)"
date: "`r format(Sys.Date(), '%B %d, %Y')`"
description: 'The course reader for INFO 340: Client-Side Web Development.'
github-repo: info340/book
url: 'https\://info340.github.io/'
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
output: bookdown::gitbook
monofont: "Source Code Pro"
cover-image: img/cover-img.png
favicon: img/busy-spider-icon.png
---

# About the Book {-}

```{r fig.align='center', echo=FALSE, include=identical(knitr:::pandoc_to(), 'html')}
#to include only in html (centered)
#knitr::include_graphics('img/cover-img.png', dpi = NA)
```

![](img/cover-img.png)


<h2>About the Book</h2>
This book covers the the skills and techniques necessary for creating sophisticated and accessible interactive web applications. It focuses on the client-side languages, tools, and libraries that professionals use to build the web sites you use every day. It assumes a basic background in computer programming (e.g., introductory programming in Java or Python), and some concepts from the [technical foundations of informatics](https://info201.github.io)). These materials were developed for the **INFO 340: Client-Side Web Development** course taught at the [University of Washington Information School](https://ischool.uw.edu/); however they have been structured to be an online resource for anyone who wishes to learn web programming.

![Creative Commons License](img/index/by-nc-sa.png)
This book is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

This book is open source. Visit us on [GitHub](https://github.com/info340/book) to contribute improvements.

<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
Some chapters originally authored by and [Mike Freeman](http://mfviz.com/#/). Some content was originally adapted from [tutorials](https://drstearns.github.io/tutorials/) by [David Stearns](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-stearns-09a27319/). Some structure and explanations inspired by [Learning Web Design](https://learningwebdesign.com/) by Jennifer Robbins.