Who this book is for

This book is for the programmer who has experience in other languages and wants to start writing HTML5 web applications. You should have some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For example, you should know how to write simple HTML documents. You should also know the basics of using CSS selectors as they are important to using jQuery. You do not need to know how to use jQuery as this book will briefly cover the basics, but it would be helpful. As long as you can understand and write simple JavaScript code, that should be sufficient to get you going. We will start off with the basics and work our way up using lots of examples.