Learn AJAX with Google's help - Google's AJAX Playground

Google today released a new browser based tool that will make learning and testing code for Google's Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google's AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google's eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries, and Earth).

The programming console provides sample starter applications for all APIs but you are free to change the source code and save the modified version to your own Google Account for referencing later.

The Playground runs on top of Google's App Engine and was developed as a '20% project'. It will also be Google's official way to show Javascript samples.

For anyone interested in exploring various Google APIs, I am sure this could be a great way to get some coding experience.

Link: Google AJAX API Playground