Programming Windows® 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

**NOTE: This title is also available as a free eBook. It is based on Windows 8 Release Preview; the content and publication date will be updated for final Windows 8 software.** Apply your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and start building your own Windows 8 apps now. As a member of the Windows Ecosystem team, the author has trained hundreds of Microsoft engineers and has been on the front lines of bringing the first Windows 8 apps to the Windows Store. Through this book, you’ll get a thorough grounding in platform features and considerations, and delve into development essentials. “Quickstart” sections provide ready experience with the tools, API, and core features. And you’ll gain insights and best practices on design, coding, and performance from real-world developers working on real-world apps. Topics includes: * Platform Characteristics * App Anatomy and Page Navigation * Controls, Control Styling, and Basic Data Binding * Collections and Collection Controls * Layout * Windows 8 Style Commanding UI * State, Settings, Files, and Documents * Input and Sensors * Media * Purposeful Animations * Contracts * Tiles, Notifications, the Lock Screen, and Background Tasks * Networking * Devices and Printing * Extensions * Localization, Accessibility, and the Windows Store "The hero-narrator of 'The Catcher in the Rye' is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices -- but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep"--Jacket Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.

Salinger's classic coming-of-age story portrays one young man's funny and poignant experiences with life, love, and sex.

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. Use what you know about standards-based web technologies to build your own Windows 8 apps. Delve into platform features, app anatomy, design considerations, and core techniques - and apply real-world insights from the Windows team itself. In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.