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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465576403321

Titolo

Governance and transformations of universities in Africa : a global perspective / / edited by Fredrick M. Nafukho, Helen M. A. Muyia, Beverly J. Irby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlotte, North Carolina : , : IAP, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62396-743-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

International Higher Education

Disciplina

379.6

Soggetti

Education and state - Africa

Educational planning - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Series page""; ""Governance and Transformations of Universities in Africa: A Global Perspective""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1: Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Transformations of African Universities""; ""CHAPTER 2: Social Capital Theory and Implications for Governing Resource Accumulation""; ""CHAPTER 3: The Role of the Alumni in the Governance and Financing of Universities in Africa""; ""CHAPTER 4: Governance of Public Universities in Kenya""

""CHAPTER 5: The Role of Program Coordinators in the Management of Universities""""CHAPTER 6: Organization and Governance of African Universities""; ""CHAPTER 7: Professional Development of Mathematics and Science Teachers""; ""CHAPTER 8: Reexamining External Examination Practice in Undergraduate Education in Kenya�s Public Universities""; ""CHAPTER 9: Reforms and Innovations in Teacher Education""; ""CHAPTER 10: Organization of Teaching Practice for Teacher Trainees in Kenyan Universities""

""CHAPTER 11: A Curriculum that Links Education to Industry to Meet



the Demands of the Kenya Vision 2030""""CHAPTER 12: Gender Policy as a Management Strategy in Education""; ""CHAPTER 13: Research in Institutions of Higher Education in Africa""; ""About the Contributors""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438095203321

Autore

Franklin Jack

Titolo

Beginning jQuery / / Jack Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA, : Apress

New York, : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer, c2013

ISBN

9781430249337

1430249331

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 181 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Expert's voice in Web development Beginning jQuery

Disciplina

006.76

Soggetti

JavaScript (Computer program language)

Query languages (Computer science)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Technical Reviewer""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1 JavaScript You Need to Know""; ""Using JavaScript on a Web Page""; ""Syntax Conventions""; ""Comments""; ""Variables""; ""Types""; ""Functions""; ""Functions Returning Values""; ""Conditionals""; ""Debugging with the Console""; ""Arrays""; ""Loops""; ""More console.log()""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 2 The Basics of jQuery""; ""The Document Object Model (DOM)""; ""Downloading jQuery""

""The jQuery API Documentation""""Writing Some jQuery""; ""Animation Example""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 3 Traversing the DOM""; ""CSS Selectors in jQuery""; ""Traversal Methods""; ""Further Traversal""; ""Chaining Methods""; ""Further Filtering""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 4 DOM Manipulation with jQuery""; ""CSS""; ""animate() and Animation Convenience Methods""; ""Attributes and Properties""; ""text( ) and html( )""; ""Removing Elements from the DOM""; ""Creating New Elements""; ""Inserting into the DOM""; ""DOM Insertion, Around""; ""DOM Insertion,



Inside""; ""DOM Insertion, Outside""

""Efficient DOM Insertion""""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 5 An Introduction to Events""; ""Popular Events""; ""Interacting with the Element""; ""Triggering Events""; ""Unbinding from Events""; ""The Event Object""; ""Building an Accordion""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 6 More Events""; ""Event Delegation""; ""Event Propagation""; ""When Should I Worry About Event Propagation?""; ""Preventing Default Behavior""; ""A Note on return false; ""; ""Your Own Events""; ""The Accordion, Take 2""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 7 Animation""; ""The animate( ) Method""; ""Basic Usage""; ""Easing""

""Passing in Two Objects""""Animation Shortcuts""; ""More Convenience Methods""; ""Fading""; ""Sliding""; ""Sliding and Fading""; ""The Animation Queue""; ""A Common Problem""; ""Fixing Your Accordion""; ""The Image Slider""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 8 Ajax with jQuery""; ""JSON""; ""Parsing JSON in JavaScript""; ""Ajax with jQuery""; ""Setting Up a Local Development Server""; ""A Real API: Dribbble""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 9 Writing a jQuery Plug-in""; ""Why a Plug-in?""; ""Your First jQuery Plug-in""; ""Improvements""; ""Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions""; ""Giving the User Options""

""Adding Options to Your Plug-ins""""The Accordion Plug-in""; ""Adding Callback Support""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 10 More jQuery Plug-ins""; ""The Dribbble API Plug-in""; ""The getShots method""; ""Improving getShots""; ""Minifying Your Code""; ""More Refactoring""; ""Documentation""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 11 A jQuery Image Slider""; ""Plan of Attack""; ""Project Setup""; ""Plug-in Setup""; ""Animating the Slider""; ""Infinitely Looping""; ""Catch Up""; ""Keeping Track""; ""Keyboard Support""; ""Automatic Animation""; ""Bug Fixing""; ""Summary""; ""Conclusion""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning jQuery is your step-by-step guide to learning the jQuery library. jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in the web developer’s toolkit. Jack Franklin takes you from the basics of getting you started with jQuery, right through to extending jQuery by writing your own plug-ins. You'll discover best practices you can follow, how you can avoid common mistakes, and you'll learn about so many of the things that jQuery has to offer, including how you can: Use jQuery’s powerful tools to dynamically update content on your site, including DOM manipulation. Extend jQuery’s capabilities by writing your own plugins on top of the framework. Animate elements and build your own jQuery slider. Employ best practices and avoid common errors made by beginners. JavaScript is a powerful language but every web developer must navigate the tricky issues around cross-browser inconsistencies. Beginning jQuery teaches you how to use jQuery to avoid spending your time fixing these browser bugs - letting you concentrate on what really matters to you. Throughout Beginning jQuery, you'll discover how expressive yet concise jQuery’s code is and how much quicker and efficient you can develop with jQuery!