Next month I will be reviewing The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript by FriendsOfEd. The review will be available on this site.

What you’ll learn from this book:

• Use HTML5 and JavaScript to create interactive web sites
• Program in JavaScript with the new HTML5 features
• Draw on canvas and place text on the canvas
• Create animated scenes using timing events
• Handle mouse events for interaction with the user/player
• Important concepts useful in any programming language/environment
• HTML tags, canvas, Math.random, setInterval, setTimerout, addEventListener, Date, localStorage and other features

More information about this book can be found at http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1430233834