JavaScript for Dummies

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Summary: Joke
Review: Join the group and become a dummy after wasting money on this book!

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Summary: JavaScript BY Dummies: Terrible Reference / Worst Guide
Review: This is clearly the worst reference book I've ever purchased. I should've done something more productive with the money I spent, like light a small fire. The book is written backwards the examples of Javascript are incomplete and confusing.

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Summary: Excellent for beginners!
Review: This book explained some concepts of HTML and JavaScript. Definitely a good book to teach the fundamentals of JavaScript and how it can interact with HTML documents.

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Summary: Something for the rookies
Review: This book is intended for javascript beginners. Although basic javascript is examined, javascript1.2 is explained in detail with a complete list of objects together with their properties and methods(very useful). I learned a small trick i have never seen before. if you are on your first steps go for it!

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Summary: You wanted a scrollbar didn't you?
Review: About 9 months ago, I decided I wanted to become familiar and maybe even develop a career in web site design. I first purchased a great book on how to design HTML. From that book I learned a lot of things, but when I had mastered the language, I wanted to know more. I searched and searched for a book that would help me learn Javascript in an introductory level. I figured a title like "Javascript for Dummies" would be great for a beginner like me. I was wrong. This book is useless. After the first time I read the book I was confused, so in a second effort I read it again. I was even more confused than the first time. This book gives no useful examples on how to use javascript except for HTML forms and jscript scrollbars. I have found no use or applicibility for the information provided by the author. I now know to stay clear of any "dummy" books.

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Summary: Not for learning
Review: I bought this book and I found out that this is not for learning. The first 130 pages focus on making JavaScript forms. And rest of it is reference section. Do not buy this book if you will use it as a main book for learning JavaScript, but I recommend this book if you will use it as a companion of another book or two.

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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: This book is the best JavaScript reference I have ever read! It's easy-to-understand and has given me great opportunities. If you are into advanced web programming, buy this book!

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Summary: This book really came up short.
Review: Somewhere in the first few pages, the author tips her hand in saying how quickly the book was prepared. Translation: Dummies needed a title on JavaScript so we rushed this thing out the door. It lacks any focus, jumping around from point-to-point without really building a solid foundation for the reader. It finally offers three or four "substantive" chapters on objects, properties, methods, and events, but these are little more than definition lists lifted straight out of the Netscape guide...which is free on-line. Furthermore, the cutesy-wootsey, tounge-in-cheek tone of the narrative is only entertaining when it's used to help deliver real content. In this case it goes beyond annoying to become insulting once you realize you're getting nearly nothing from the text, fighting to try and synthisize some understanding of JavaScript from this piece, which is no more than a first draft and in real need of revision. Shame on you IDG Books.

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Summary: This book is not for dummies
Review: I bought this book thinking I would be up and programming by the time finished it. Fat chance. It has refernces to files that are not on the cd. It explains things in bits and does not show complete application use. I had to go on-line to figure out what they were talking about and I am still not sure. The book should have taken a live active website using javascript and explain from the simplest to the most complex. Since I don't understand most of the uses, it is hard to apply the knowledge and it is impossible to do just a few simple things to start. If this book is for dummies then I need the version for the deaf, blind and dumb.

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Summary: Worthless
Review: Open your wallet, purse, ect. take out $25 and throw it in the street, trash, out window whatever but don't buy this book. This book is terrible, it is poorly organized, example code does not work, and the cd-rom is missing half the items that it lists. It is the last Dummies book I will ever purchase. In fact I'm thinking of starting a support group for stupid people like myself that have purchased books like this.