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Summary: A book for Visual People . . .
Review: As long as you're intelligent enough to remember that books like this are for people who AREN'T using Microsoft Frontpage and are using real webpage editors or doing all the coding themselves than this book is GREAT!The best part about this book is that it has a correlating website where you can see the scripts in action and download them for yourself. This is especially helpful because it destroys any chance of a script having a typo. This is the first programming language I've attempted to learn, and this book was the perfect way to start. I plan on buying more Visual Quickstart Books in the near future. Also - all those rumors about this stuff working only in Netscape is a load of poo poo. Netscaped is talked about the most in this book because the people at Netscape (Sun Microsystems) created Java.
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Summary: I Wish I didn't Have to give it any stars
Review: This book is terrible. I read hlf of a internet tutorial on Html and I learned more about Javascript.
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Summary: A GENINUE QUICKSTART
Review: This book truly lives up to its title. It delivers on its promise to get you writing javascript quickly. The coding examples are excellent and accompanying commentary very well written.The layout makes it very easy to use. It has been an invaluable tool.
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Summary: The book I've been looking for!
Review: I am an HTML designer trying to use Javascript in my web pages. I have bought 4 books on Javascript in the last 2 years -- all have been useless to me. I wanted a book that would provide solutions for specific problems that I was trying to solve. THIS IS THE BOOK I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR! All the others require you to read through the whole book before you'll understand what you're doing. Even then, you still don't have much of an idea how to write scripts that you'll be able to use. This book shows you exactly how to write scripts to solve specific problems. It's also written in such a way that you can adapt the scripts to serve your needs. This is not an advanced programming book, nor is it a complete reference for javascript. However, it is very straight-forward, easy to read, and you'll be able to QUICKLY use javascript in your web pages!
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Summary: A great, hit-the-ground-running start for JavaScript
Review: This book is an apple, not an orange, so don't call it an orange. It's not a comprehensive guide to the esoteric ins and outs of JavaScript. That's what O'Reilly's JavaScript: the Definitive Guide is for. This book --- like all the books in the excellent Visual QuickStart Guide series --- is aimed at getting you into the topic and doing stuff with it quickly. The other books like the O'Reilly book (which would leave a beginner pulling her hair out) are for later. The examples in this book show you the most common uses of JS and provide sample scripts (which are available for download on the companion web site). The newer, 3d. ed. of the book adds a significant amount of additional information, and is worth the price of admission (I also owned the 2d. ed.). It gets you doing cool stuff with Javascript quickly. That simplicity is its strength and also one of my complaints about it. The examples are not often very flexible. They do one thing well (which is described quickly and in a manner in which you can easily understand), but its not always easy to modify the script to similar uses. And, because it's how it is, it doesn't teach you enough to understand the theory of the JS you're using, so you rarely understand how to modify those scripts. BUT, as I said above, that's beyond the scope of this book. One example: in the doing things with windows chapter, there are scripts for opening and closing a second window from within the main window. Great scripts and they work well. But, if you want to open the new window from the main window, then close the new window from the new window (not the main window), too bad, because it doesn't show you how to do that. But, on that point, I'm starting to lean in the direction of calling this book an orange. For absolute beginners: it's a must, and is probably the best introduction to JavaScript. For Intermediate JavaScripters, its hit or miss, so check it out thoroughly (though it's still a great quick reference for when you forget something). For advanced JavaScript and JS applications, check out one of the O'reilly reference works.
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Summary: Learn the JavaScript you'll most likely need...
Review: This book is not a complete reference (O'Reilly's 'Definitive Guide' probably comes closest to that definition), but it is a superior way to learn the most useful JavaScript techniques (form verification, images, frames, cookies -- and debugging) quickly. The use of illustrations in these 'Visual QuickStart' guides can't be beat, and every line of code is explained thoroughly. If you need to learn advanced JavaScript -- or Dynamic HTML -- you'll need to look elsewhere. But you can't go wrong by starting your JavaScript training with this book.
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Summary: Not Much Detail
Review: I was hoping that this book would be a good overview of JavaScript. Instead, it is full of specific examples of code and brief walkthroughs of the code. It would have been much more helpful if there were comprehensive descriptions of the code or objects. And even though the author encourages the reader to place comments in their code, he neglects to do this for the samples. This would have been extremely helpful as there were many times when I understood the code as a whole, but found some statements confusing and could not tell what exactly they were doing.
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Summary: more like Laite in 7 days
Review: While I have been programmer since 1980 and being paid for it, unlike MANY recent people. I repsect the book for what it has. Quick simple examples that make one thing clear. They do work and that is all the WWW is looking for. No one want to reinvent the JAVA just for themselfs. The book does rush, and like so many 'in 7,21 days' you can do this; its not a comprehensive manual. But it never stated it was! As for netscape v. IE live with it. Anyone remember beta vs VHS. Now you have to think DVD.
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Summary: The Examples only work for Internet Explorer
Review: I first found this book was great with the examples, till friend told me my examples didn't work. The Javascript examples provided in the book don't work for Netscape. So be careful.
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Summary: Pointless
Review: This book is poorly structured, inaccurate and a waste of time for anyone who wants to learn what Javascript can do. As an experienced programmer in a number of languages, I was completely baffled by some of the examples, until I realised that they were just plain bad programming. I can honestly say that this book set back my first attempt to get a website up and running by about two weeks, that being the length of time I spent attempting to get any sense out of it. Nothing is explained properly, the index might as well belong to another book and few, if any, of the examples represented anything I might conceivably want to do. I was fooled by the introduction!
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