HMTL5 Book for a noob

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Hello all, here's hoping you can point me the right directing. I have been looking for some books on HTML5, which starts at the bottom for someone who has never used html before.

Any ones I have got on Kindle all assume you already know HTML and JS, something I have never touched on before.

(I come from a C#.NET background)

Would also like the book to include JS and CSS but not necessarily as I can get one that is dedicated to them.

Thanks all
joe
 
HTML is incredibly simple to learn. I'd even go so far as to say that money spent on an HTML book is a waste. There are plenty of tutorials online.

Personally I find references more helpful so you can see a list of every element available and all the attributes of it.

Whatever you do though, don't use W3Schools.com as their information is generally outdated and/or completely wrong.
 
Spunkys right,

HTML and CSS is easy to pick up. Though I'm with you the books that I do have I understand most of the 'advanced CSS' but strugle with the real basics. i.e how to get the page to be how i want it. Once i have the divs layed out where i want them im a way.

Nettuts have some good tutorials

JS or Jquery?
 
To repeat the above, it's easy to learn html, there's no need to buy a book (apart from maybe an advanced CSS book for later).
Use http://htmldog.com/ for a tutorial, it's really helpful and laid out in a simple way.

It teaches XHTML, but the differences shouldn't affect you.
Just use doctype
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
instead of
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
JS or Jquery??

is Jquery not a library of JavaScript?

Am the moment am working my way over the Head First HTML5 book from a mate, and anything I'm not sure about gets a google lol

Nettuts has a wide range of tuts but there hard to find what am looking for. The basics lol

Ill take a look at HTML Dog also.

My end goal isn't really web apps/web sites, its the mobile side of things Ill be moving into.
 
cheers analog for that link, ill run through them over the next few weeks.

Spunkey, am just hard coding JS as and when I need it and will prob stay the hard coding route.

Ill look into jQuery once am comfortable with JavaScript
 
As the others have said, to learn the fundamentals of XHTML there is plenty on the web. w3schools has some fantastic resources aimed at the complete beginner.

After you've got a grasp of the fundamental HTML concepts, learning HTML5 is a smaller step - there are a number of things done differently and fit nicely with CSS3.

I personally recommend the A Book Apart series, especially the first two (HTML5 and CSS3). At $9 for the eBook it's not bad at all. Once you've grasped that, the further books in the series really help build a knowledge of web applications, responsive web and mobile considerations are a huge point these days.

Another good book I'd recommend (similar to what you already have I reckon) is the Introduction to HTML5 by Bruce Lawson.

In terms of jQuery, you a right that it is a library of based on JavaScript. There are others such as Prototype, however jQuery is definatly worth looking at. You don't need to know JS, yet it helps. With the number of jQuery plugins available on the net I personally wouldn't put it at the top of your learning list (again.. my personal opinion only).
 
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