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Summary: Good reference for the most commonly used scripts-beginner
Review: I received this book at my beginning JavaScript class this week. Looks like it will be great for beginners wanting to know how to do the basic everyday scripts. Full of samples and explantion. good stuff packed into a small 200 page book. Great for what it is intendd for.
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Summary: Not enough explanations
Review: If you want to copy and paste exactly what they have written, the book is OK. If you want to change it a bit for your own purposes, forget it. They don't explain the code well enough for you to do it. It is the worst computer book I have ever bought.
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Summary: It is a good book for beginners.
Review: I like the book. It it pretty good and gives good examples and everything else. I would recommend it to anyone. If you want to see some thing made with it visit my home page made with java script.
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Summary: If you want to actually learn JavaScript, look elsewhere.
Review: This book (2nd edition) is fine if all you want is some examples to copy and your target audience uses nothing but Netscape Navigator. It covers practically nothing concerning syntax. Even after downloading the authors' scripts and running them (without changing a thing) on IE 4.0, a great deal of them failed. Worse yet, after running some with Navigator, one failed and the accompanying images didn't load! I didn't bother to check if the image names were entered incorrectly or just plain missing, but I don't think I should have to check the authors' work for accuracy when they are supposed to be teaching me.
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Summary: if you are a beginner this book is for you.
Review: This book is probably only for beginners. It just teaches the basics on rollover, animation, status box, etc. After reading the book I was able to write javascript on my own and also look at other peoples scripts and understand them and modify them for my own needs.
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Summary: a good starting point...
Review: Get both the first and second edition. More than an instruction book (although with some study of the code, you can more or less teach yourself the principles underlying the programming)- both volumes are nice, concise collections of useful scripts (no 500 lines of bloat code to make a rudimentary appointment book like I've seen in some Javascript books). Definitely Netscape-centric, but so what? If you're using MSIE, have you stopped to consider "why"? Can you say - proprietary extensions? If you insist on MSIE, then wait for Microsoft to write a book on same. But, alas, they rarely do this. MSIE's version of Javascript is contemptible. Hail to anyone who refuses to be cowed by their corporate presence, and who uses OpenSource software. These books do a good job for "standard" Javascript, so they do serve their purpose rather well.
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Summary: Not a good book
Review: This book is very difficult to use if you work with MS IE. Almost every comment in the first few chapters discusses only what works on Netscape and Mac. I stopped reading after a few chapters. (This is really a one star rating, but Amazon didn't post my first comment with one star, so let's try two stars).
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Summary: be patient if you can
Review: This book took me a while to get used to, mostly because you have to decode the thing before you can use it yourself. What I'm getting is that the writers don't really dissect each script, so you kid of have to figure out what goes where and why in order to apply it to your own work. It's a good reference for me now, but I do wish it went a little more in-depth script-wise.
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Summary: First Impressions, 2nd Edition
Review: This book does not help if you write _any_ code for MS IE users. Rather than throw the book out after the first 3 chapters, I jumped ahead to Ch 11 & 12. Frustrating. My priority is to find another book to read. This book could be fixed.Mostly disappointed that the book addresses only Netscape and MAC users (check it out if you don't believe me, before you buy). Even though MS IE does a poor job supporting JavaScript, we still have users on MS IE.
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Summary: excellent, useful, best value
Review: This book is eminently readable and extremely useful. The examples are clear and you can easily adapt them to your own uses. Also, the price can't be beat. Highly recommended to any JavaScript beginner.
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