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Teach Yourself jQuery in 24 Hours Part I: Getting Started Hour 1: Understanding JavaScript Basics Hour 2: Understanding Third-Party JavaScript Libraries Hour 3: Installing and Testing jQuery Hour 4: Refreshing Your CSS Knowledge Part II: Core Functionality - Manipulating CSS Hour 5: Beginning Steps with CSS Properties Hour 6: Adding CSS Effects Hour 7: Creating Animations Hour 8: Implementing Custom Scrolling Hour 9: Creating Image Lightboxes Hour 10: Designing Multimedia Slideshows Part III: Advanced Web Site Programming Hour 12: Understanding jQuery Plugins Hour 13: Using the Accordion Plugin Hour 14: Creating Functional Tabs Hour 15: Creating Sortable Columns with the Sortable Plugin Hour 16: Creating Elements with the Draggable/Droppable Plugins Hour 17: Implementing Selections with the Selectable Plugin Hour 18: Using the Resizable Plugin Hour 19: Creating Your Own Plugin Part IV: Increased Interactivity with Ajax Hour 20: Understanding Ajax Hour 21: Integrating the Date Picker into a Calendar Application Hour 22: Creating Interactive Forms Hour 23: Loading and Manipulating External Data Hour 24: Communicating with the Server Side

Steven Holzner is an award-winning author who has been writing about XML topics such as XSLT as long as they've been around. He's the author of the best-selling Inside XML by New Riders, and has written 67 books, all on programming topics, selling well over a million copies. His books have been translated into 16 languages around the world and include a good number of industry bestsellers. He's a former contributing editor of PC Magazine, graduated from MIT, and received his Ph.D. at Cornell. He's been on the faculty of both MIT and Cornell, and also teaches corporate seminars around the country.