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JavaScript: Your visual blueprint for building dynamic Web pages

JavaScript: Your visual blueprint for building dynamic Web pages

List Price: $24.99
Your Price: $16.49
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good guide for beginners
Review: If you are looking for a good intro to javascript this book will do the job. It explains everything in laymen terms and the pictures definitely help. I've learned what the heck is an array and how to work with strings after browsing through the book. It gives you the confidence you need so you dont feel intimated by javascript. After this book, you might want to upgrade to the O'Reilly books if you want some more advanced tutoring.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great reference especially for casual javascript users
Review: If you are not a hardcore javascript programmer and you find yourself in need of a snippet of code, you can find it easily with a simple working example in this book. I am primarily an Visual Basic/ASP/ASP.NET programmer and use javascript from time to time to do simple things on the client that reduce unnecessary hits to the web server. When you don't program in a language every day you often forget many of the nuances of the language and this books effectively helps fill that gap for me. Many books fall short of being good programming references by not giving clear concise and short examples like this book does.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great reference especially for casual javascript users
Review: If you are not a hardcore javascript programmer and you find yourself in need of a snippet of code, you can find it easily with a simple working example in this book. I am primarily an Visual Basic/ASP/ASP.NET programmer and use javascript from time to time to do simple things on the client that reduce unnecessary hits to the web server. When you don't program in a language every day you often forget many of the nuances of the language and this books effectively helps fill that gap for me. Many books fall short of being good programming references by not giving clear concise and short examples like this book does.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Okay Book
Review: JavaScript seems to drive everything these days, so you cannot create good webpages without knowing what it is and how it works. I really love these Read Less - Learn More books, for they are constructed so intelligently. They gives simply, clear instuctions that have sceenshots to show precisely what they are detailing. In a matter of a few minutes you will see the world of JavaScript in much simplier terms. Cannot recommend this book enough for novices webdesigners. A Must.

Comes with CD Rom.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great reference for the novice
Review: JavaScript seems to drive everything these days, so you cannot create good webpages without knowing what it is and how it works. I really love these Read Less - Learn More books, for they are constructed so intelligently. They gives simply, clear instuctions that have sceenshots to show precisely what they are detailing. In a matter of a few minutes you will see the world of JavaScript in much simplier terms. Cannot recommend this book enough for novices webdesigners. A Must.

Comes with CD Rom.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Okay Book
Review: On the whole, it's got some useful examples that can teach you some of the basics. However, a lot of space was wasted in trying to oversimply by using screens. The authors should have focused more on explaining the basics of javascript. Having said that, the book is clearly written and the layout is easy to follow.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: From the Publisher
Review: Please note that the printing issue has been fixed in all available product. Any future books shipped will have correct text and code.
Thank you.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Make sure you get second (or greater) printing
Review: Updated:
The publisher has now provided me with a corrected copy so I would like to update on my negative remarks made previously. This an excellent book for beginning JavaScript programmers and it also makes a good reference (or cookbook) for experienced programmers. If you need a jumpstart into the world of clientside scripting this is the book I recommend. Give it 5 stars now.


[Old review: I have just received this book in its first printing of the 2nd edition.
Unfortunately the publishers have let the author down badly.
This book would have rated 5 stars from me if it did not contain bad printing errors which cause most of example code in the diagrams to be invisible.
Hold off on this one until the next corrected printing.]


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