Google Apps Script for Beginners: Building on your basic JavaScript knowledge, this book takes you into the world of Google Apps Script and shows you how to develop and customize your own apps. The step-by-step approach provides all the necessary skills.

· Packt Publishing Ltd
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About this ebook

Customize Google Apps using Apps Script and explore its powerful featuresKey Features
  • Quickly develop exciting Google scripts using JavaScript
  • Effortlessly manage your web applications and user interfaces
  • Build your own applications progressively with the help of real world examples and scenarios
Book DescriptionThis book is a simple step-by-step, example-oriented guide with a focus on providing the practical skills necessary to develop and customize apps with Apps Script. If you are an application developer with no knowledge of App Script, and would like to learn to build apps using Google Apps script from scratch, then this book is for you. Basic JavaScript knowledge is required.What you will learn
  • Get acquainted with the tools you have at hand
  • Exchange and communicate information between Google services
  • Build a private website using your private files
  • Construct a web app that really helps you at work
  • Solve common issues when using shared documents
  • Embed scripts and text documents in Google sites
  • Know where to find the information you will need to go further
Who this book is for

If you are an application developer with no knowledge of App Script, and would like to learn to build apps using Google Apps script from scratch, then this book is for you. Basic JavaScript knowledge is required.

Customize Google Apps using Apps Script and explore its powerful featuresKey Features Quickly develop exciting Google scripts using JavaScript Effortlessly manage your web applications and user interfaces Build your own applications progressively with the help of real world examples and scenarios...

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27 reviews
Martyn Beaman
February 26, 2015
2 Stars for now,I will buy the book, This all started , because I stupidly bought, "Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830i,way old" version 2.3.6! And having very little bloody memory? SD card, rooting, apps,developers, one-thing-lead-to-another.Fate all fate.since 5/11/2014.mjb.
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Edo de Roo
September 26, 2014
Played around with script, but needed to touch some base. This book does explain me the basics that were so hard to find online.
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Mr Meraj ahamad Meraj
October 7, 2025
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About the author

Serge Gabet has been a professional audio equipment manufacturer for 20 years and is now working for an artistic upper school in Brussels, Belgium as a teacher and Technical Manager. He is also in charge of the Google Apps administration of this school. He develops custom applications using Google Apps Script mainly for his school, though he also works in other areas. He has been designated a Top Contributor by Google since June 2011. He was active on the Google Group Help forum till 2012, then on the Stack Overflow forum (the Google Help Group forum was closed in June 2012), and became a first ranker and an all-time contributor on the Stack Overflow forum a few months back.

Serge Gabet has been a professional audio equipment manufacturer for 20 years and is now working for an artistic upper school in Brussels, Belgium as a teacher and Technical Manager. He is also in charge of the Google Apps administration of this school. He develops custom applications using Googl...

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