Head First HTML5 Programming was written to guide people on how to use JavaScript and HTML5 to create web applications. The book teaches readers to make their pages interactive and it explains the use of new APIs that have been created for HTML5. The book focusses on teaching the reader how to use HTML5 with JavaScript to add behavior to web pages. Included in this book is information on using any kind of API on a web page, the use of DOM to enhance the interactivity of pages, locating users with the geolocation API, drawing with the new 2D surface known as Canvas, getting a hold of 5 megabytes of storage in browsers of every user and using Web workers to enhance the responsiveness of the page. The book promises to take the reader from a novice to an expert in JavaScript with its detailed chapters on the subject.Head First HTML5 Programming was published by Shroff/O'Reilly in 2011. This is the first edition of the book and is available in paperback.