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Summary: Very good; carefully conceived and written; a quality book
Review: An impressive and helpful book. This one stands out in a field of quickly-written regurgitations of the manuals. I was able to browse and find code that did what I needed to do without reading everything. Lots of carefully-written samples and real-world tips. You get the impression these authors have actually explained this material to real, live users--so they know what needs emphasis and how to get the information across.
I'm writing JavaScript provided by Windows servers (IIS with ASP) to Windows clients. But I am glad I took a look at this book from the Sun/Macintosh side of technology.
The book is desribed as being for "web authors," but as a full-time developer I found it went well into the depths of the language.
Caveat: I have browsed other JavaScript books on shelves, but have not purchased or read them.
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Summary: Good god
Review: Definitely not for ANYONE. This book is the definition of redundancy. Repetitive examples, pages of unncessary code and TOO MANY SCREENSHOTS! Not only that, but even though it says "examples for UNIX, Win95 and Macintosh" the screenshots are 99% Macintosh. What gives? The information in this book is slightly useful *if you know what you are looking for*. Even so, it is hard to find anything in this hefty tome that can't be found in a scripting tutorial. I expected more from the company that co-developed this language with Netscape.
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Summary: Good god
Review: Definitely not for ANYONE. This book is the definition of redundancy. Repetitive examples, pages of unncessary code and TOO MANY SCREENSHOTS! Not only that, but even though it says "examples for UNIX, Win95 and Macintosh" the screenshots are 99% Macintosh. What gives? The information in this book is slightly useful *if you know what you are looking for*. Even so, it is hard to find anything in this hefty tome that can't be found in a scripting tutorial. I expected more from the company that co-developed this language with Netscape.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: It is very user-friendly to read.
Extremely correct.
The SunSoft Press / Java Series !
The pace is middle/low.
Simply surprising good !!!
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Summary: There must be better books on JavaScript
Review: This big (1100+ pages) book somehow manages to talk about every aspect of the JavaScript Language but still leaves me searching for answers. It contains lots of examples, but it is mainly toy code illustrating only the point being discussed. If you need JavaScript in real life, this book does not really help you. BTW, the impressive page count is achieved by first explaining something, then listing the source of a complete web page explaining everything again and then reproducing a screen shot of the web page explaining everything once more...
While a massive book like this looks good on a shelf, trying to find information in it is hard on your thumbs!
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Summary: If your are the beginner, this is not your choice !!!!!!!
Review: This is my textbook. but i don't like it very much. i am the beginner of the JavaScript, this book even doesn't help me at all. there are a lot of things had not talked about it before it pop up, it just suddenly appear before your eyes. I always get lost because of that.
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Summary: If your are the beginner, this is not your choice !!!!!!!
Review: This is my textbook. but i don't like it very much. i am the beginner of the JavaScript, this book even doesn't help me at all. there are a lot of things had not talked about it before it pop up, it just suddenly appear before your eyes. I always get lost because of that.
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Summary: Very iffy... not for beginners
Review: When I first looked at this book, I thought it looked well thought out, and pretty complete. Unfortunately, I never find what I need in it. Everytime I need to find something, I end up looking elsewhere.
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