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Summary: Great reference
Review: This is a great book for those who already know what Javascript is. If you're a beginner it might take some time to go through it, but I'm sure it will be worth it
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Summary: My favorite Javascript text...
Review: This is a great read for web developers that know the basics of JavaScript and need a desk reference. I think that this is a great example of how O'Reilly has created a book series that creates a loyal group of O'Reilly readers. Hands down, the Rhino is my favorite JavaScript reference.
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Summary: Nice reference book
Review: The book is nicely organized, easy to understand and covers the most recent version of JavaScript. Get the specs and user guide from Netscape and you are ready to write even the most complex JavaScript.
However, the book has a bit less than sufficient number of examples and adding a few "comprehensive" examples would do it a lot of good. But readers can make up for that by reading code off websites :)
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Summary: Buy this book and buy Goodman and you have it all
Review: If you start with Danny Goodman's JavaScript Bible book and then buy this book you won't ever have to buy another JavaScript book. The combination of the two is the 1-2 punch that knocks Javascript out. Goodman's is the careful understandable tutorial, this is the more concise tutorial + a great reference. Highly recommended!
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Summary: A Intro book for Beginners - NOT
Review: It's been said in other reviews. The book is great for reference. However, if you're new to Javascript, this is not the book for you. The author explains concepts in abstract detail. Then, he either doesn't give an example, or his examples are so arcane (i.e., trigonometry or some other obscure math example) that it doesn't clarify the concept he is trying to present. I hope O'Reilly realizes it's missing a marketing opportunity. How about a book for someone trying to Learn Javascript without a great deal of programming experience?
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Summary: The Straight Dope
Review: This is a great book. I give it a high recommendation. I'm an application programmer, not a systems programmer nor a software engineer. VB and SQL are just my speed and most 4GLs and scripting languages are too. I may not be a progamming genius but my attitude is 'how hard can it be?'. I will try to hack anything I can before I ask for help, but when I ask for help, I want the full complete definitive answer. That's why this book is for me. I have never coded a lick of javascript before, then one day I had to write some cookie stuff. Fine, how hard can it be? I go out onto the web and look for (and borrow) other cookie code. I find a little bit here and a little bit there. It looks very simple but ultimately none of it works for my problem. Finally I say, I'm going to have to learn this stuff. Might as well by the O'Reilly book. My attitude is that I may never have to do anything with Javascript again, but I'm also not about to waste money on a book if I'll have replace later if and when I get serious. And this book was worth it. I now have industrial strength overkill cookie code in my application plus I undertand why everything works as it does. If you have to ask, you might as well ask for it all. This book has it all. Now I can't give it 5 stars because it's outdated. There's a lot of stuff in it that doesn't apply to the latest browsers. There was nothing about Mozilla or IE 5, so that all needs to be updated. But what's there is good so you get to understand the development priorities of those browsers and what effect that has on ways you should code. All in all it's another home run for OReilly, but Flanagan needs to step up to the plate again. BTW you'll note that this book is often referenced in other good progammer's guides. "Definitive" is right.
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Summary: An oldie but goodie
Review: This is a compelling read, at least for a reference book. I read the first 10 chapters in one sitting, thinking I would only read one or two. I haven't let it out of my sight in the three years since. If you need a JavaScript reference, get this one.
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Summary: Excellent Reference
Review: This book has bailed me out when troubleshooting scripts at client sites numerous times (too numerous to count). I knocked it down to 4 stars because of the lack of examples. The text is really good - you just have to already know what you're looking for. For those of you programmers out there, this text fits into the "programmer's reference" toolkit more so than a "teach yourself" type guide. If you're familiar with c/c++/java, you know that you generally buy one type of book to learn patterns, principles, and language constructs, and another book that is simply a language reference. This would be the language reference. If you're one of these web designer types, pay attention to the paragraph above. You're going to need another book to actually walk through the learning of the language process. That does not change the fact that this is a very valuable resource
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Summary: not impressed
Review: personally i am not impressed by this book. i have been doing java for a year and because i am from a programming background i was able to appreciate the chapters on data types statements and so on. But I was all the time thinking if I was a beginner then this material would not be easy to take in. I became stuck on the chapter on objects as there is a little mention of things such as Document Object Models which is an important part of javascript. After looking up this stuff on the web I am more comfortable with it. Overall my feeling is that this book does contain a lot of stuff but has not been put together in a good ordered fashion. Thums down I am afraid
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Summary: excellent book
Review: This is by far the best Javasript book I have seen on the market. Very well organized and written.
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