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Summary: If you're serious about JavaScript, this book is for you.
Review: Most books on JavaScript are packed with examples of how to do several simple tasks. Kinda like a cookbook; you can make several different individual items, but there's very little or no guidance at all on how to make a nice dinner or meal made up of several items that blend nicely. Or, more importantly, no explanation of *why* certain items should go together and others should not.An average teacher shows you "how" to do it; a great teacher tells you "why" it's done that way. "JavaScript For The World Wide Web" tells you "why" JavaScript works the way it does, and points you to several web sites that further clearly explain it's finer points.
The examples are very informative and cover a wide range of situations and techniques.
Each chapter is full of easy to understand examples, and the appendix that covers the JavaScript object table is a gold mine
all by itself. The best part about this book is that you are shown how to write cross-broswer compliant JavaScript that isn't huge and confusing. This book is so important to me that I keep it next to my PC, right beside my O'Reilly JavaScript book (the one with the rhino on the cover). If you have never programmed a line of code in your life, this book will help get you started. Don't be afraid of writing code that won't work; there's lots of places on the WWW that are full of experienced programmers willing to help. This book is great place to start. :)
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Summary: Examples+ Learning-
Review: If you want to just copy code from the book and paste it on your websites, this is the book for you. In which case, you may as well download JavaScripts from some website. It does have line-by-line explanations for the scripts, but the explanations are not that great. it's not organized in the best manner, either. I never understood loops reading this book until I started learning Perl and used a book that explained it. Then I understood how to use them in JavaScript. If you want to actually learn to code, rather that just copy code, I'd suggest a different book.
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Summary: Not recommended
Review: I bought this book to learn how to write JavaScript, and all it does is show me the ones that you CAN do if you want to copy and paste it into your web page. If you want to actually learn it and be able to write your own scripts this book is not for you.
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Summary: Great for newbies and seasoned pros
Review: I will never need to buy another JavaScript book. This book covers all the basics and provides understandable examples with explanations. It also provides full program examples such as building a slide show and random images. There is an easy-to-follow object flowchart to help you remember the order objects are called as well as a list of reserved words. The comprehensive index also makes it easy to access information on a specific subject -- whether you are new to JavaScript or you use it for a living. Great learning and reference tool.
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Summary: good
Review: The book arrived very timely and in good condition.
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Summary: Just when you thought editions can't get better
Review: Try as you might to take a class in JavaScript or implement scripts by using online resources, it remains on your to do list. You search the Internet for the scripts and can never find the exact one you want or even close enough to do tweaking. Perhaps, it's time to try an alternative and just buy a book on the subject and dive in. This book is for beginners and intermediates who are comfortable with HTML and lack the time to learn how to implement JavaScript from scratch or without resources. Negrino and Smith set up the book by the "things" you want your Web site to do rather than walk you through all the definitions, objects, operators, syntax, and all that stuff that would make the non-programmer's eyes glaze over. There are other books that serve that purpose. Open the book and go to the table of contents, find what you need, and start adding it to your Web pages. Screenshots and lines of code are on every page of the book with step-by-step guidelines of how to use and implement the script. You don't even have to type the code from scratch. Instead, go to the book's companion Web site to get the code and fix it up to meet your needs - a great time saver. If you own an earlier edition of the book, this one has 100 more pages of new material including new chapters on 7 - Forms and Regular Expressions, 11 - CSS, 13 - User Interface Design with JavaScript, 14 - Applied JavaScript, and 15 - Bookmarklets. Furthermore, the scripts in the older editions have been revised to ensure compliance with current Web standards. Chapter 7 - Forms and Regular Expressions show how to validate email addresses, file names, and URLs. It gives you a gentle introduction to regexes (regular expressions). Don't panic at the thought of them especially with the handy table of expressions and associated characters. Once you try them out, you'll wonder what you ever did without them. Chapter 13 - User Interface Design with JavaScript gives you the opportunity to create pull-down and sliding menus. Chapter 14 - Applied JavaScript has directions for creating a slideshow with captions and generating bar graphs. Colorful additions to the book are the Object Flowchart and Object Table printed in color to show you which objects are compatible with which browsers. The flowchart may be a challenge for beginners, but the table makes up for it by listing the object along with its properties, methods and event handlers. If you're looking to get cooking with JavaScript, look no further than this cookbook with easily modifiable recipes. It belongs on the Web designer's reference shelf.
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Summary: Good Beginner Book.
Review: This is a good beginners book. Didn't get into really detailed programming but it covers enough for anyone starting out.
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Summary: Not very helpful...
Review: This book has alot of examples for accomplishing different tasks but was very light on explaining concepts and even syntax sometimes. My very first javascript program was to create an HTML table with dynamic content and it was quite difficult with this book. I'm not exactly sure what purpose a book like this serves unless you find a pre-written script that closely meets your needs. I recommend that you keep looking if you want a helpful javascript book. Using this book to create your own script was much too aggravating!
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Summary: A great place to start
Review: Negrino & Smith's book is a fantastic book on JavaScript for beginners.
Rather than overwhelm the reader with techno-babble and line-upon-line of code, 'JavaScript for the World Wide Web' sets out short, useful, scripts, explains what they do, why you would use them, and what makes them work the way they do.
Someone who knows next-to-nothing about JavaScript can pick up this book, open at page one and read through, following the clear, illustrated, examples which explain JavaScript from the most basic level to powerful, complex (but very useful) features such as regular expressions.
I found this book tremendously good value, and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone keen to learn this essential web programming language.
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Summary: Grateful for this resource.
Review: I'm an artist/designer and not a programmer. I searched many sites and other books and have found that this book was very easy to understand and the codes very flexible, meaning I could figure out how to add my own images, look, etc. with the knowledge that I have. Along with a better understanding of JavaScript, I've also gained a good reference book which also includes information on Cascading Style Sheets, DHTML and much more. I'm now able to look at JavaScript codes/books and know a little something about what is going on.
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