Rating:  Summary: This is a Fairly Good Book for Beginners Review: I am just starting on Web Publishing, and this book has helped me a lot. It was really easy to understand, and it had some fairly easy examples that could be understood by the beginner. It also makes a good reference book.
Rating:  Summary: This is a terrible book! Review: I'm relatively computer literate and enjoy hands-on learning. JS for Dummies is a total failure. I was on page 70 before I realized that I hadn't even been asked to try anything on the computer. The examples are lame and the author does nothing to check for reader understanding, nor does she provide any useful exercises. I'm an educator and I think the author could benefit from some education classes! Now I have a $28 coaster!
Rating:  Summary: Save your money. Read the Netscape Reference instead. Review: What a bunch of hype. If you want to make javasript forms, this book may help. Otherwise, it's a total waste of time. The examples suck. It's illogically constructed and useless to graphic designers already using Dreamweaver or CyberStudio. It reads like the Netscape reference manual. In fact, you'd be better of going there. END
Rating:  Summary: Excellent for beginning programmers Review: I have read three books on JavaScript. This one is by far the easiest to understand. If you are at least an intermediate programmer using HTML, and a beginner using some kind of object-oriented language (Java or C++) you will find learning JavaScript as taught by Emily Vander Veer very easy.
Rating:  Summary: Pretty good Review: I have a few books on JavaScript, but if I ever have a question on JavaScript, I turn to this book first. My only complaint is that the book doesn't tell you whether something falls under JavaScript 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2. So you have to test your JavaScript in several different browsers to see which ones it works in.
Rating:  Summary: Very helpful starter for learning JavaScript Review: JavaScript for Dummies is a very useful book for GETTING STARTED. Although its purpose is to teach you the language, it really doesn't. That is, it doesn't do an outstanding job of it. I felt it focused way too much on form validation and JavaScript dealing with forms. In addition, the author made a few too many personal references. On the other hand, as all Dummies books go, it was fun to read and I did end up walking way with
Rating:  Summary: this book sucks Review: i loved the "dummies" books in the past, but this one just plain sucks. the author likes to introduce complex scripts at the beginning and doesn't want to explain what is going on. the entire book is like this. this text is worthless, go to http://www.htmlgoodies.com if you want to learn JavaScript, not this crap. the layout doesn't make any sense and neither do the directions. this is a prime example of what happens when you let a woman write a book. you need an estrogen shot just to understnd the "table of contents". this book is worth less than toilet paper. it's horrible. i know...my wife is pregnant and she doesn't act as irrational as this piece of crap book. i wish i could spend my $25 on cocaine or crack or something that would make this worthwhile. i could write a bunch of random statements on a taco bell napkin and it would contain more information than this heap of crap. i'm sorry the "dummies" series is good (i own 3 of them) but this is crap written by someone who has no idea how to teach. congratulations on getting your name printed all over a bunch of useless crap Emily A. VanderVeer.
Rating:  Summary: I should have checked Amazon first.... Review: I just purchased "JavaScript for Dummies" and immediately became lost after Chapter 2. The author is horrible at teaching this language. Fortunately, I have a friend who is a VBasic programmer and helped me through parts of it. But I give up - I'm going to search for another JavaScript manual. This one is the pits and I am very, very, VERY disappointed that "For Dummies" even published this book! I have a deep urge to slap the tar out of the author.
Rating:  Summary: The Source of My Programming Knowledge Review: This book is not only what taught me JavaScript, but computer programming as well. I continue to refer to this book today, years after I first read it. It has an amazing compilation of information, really simple to understand as are all dummies books that I've read.
Rating:  Summary: Not a bad reference; not the best book to learn from Review: Once upon a time the "For Dummies" series stood alone as the only name brand instructional company in the world. However, like most great ideas, variations of the same concept were adopted. In the case of internet lingo, O'Reilly's and The Complete Idiot's guides were created.I have read both the O'Reilly and the For Dummies book, and after completing both of them (I am an advanced J-Script user), I found the O'Reilly book, although not geared specifically towards beginners, as the more instructional book. It gives typical O'Reilly plans and lessons that will guide you to being an earnest Java Script writer. The main problem with the For Dummies book is its lack of direction for the overall web constructor. The author advertises Java Script as the ideal programming language, and in doing so has written chapters on how to do things in this language which I, and many other professional web designers feel should not be done. Therefore, keep yourself away from this book until you have read a truly introductory book, as well as a book like O'Reillys... after that you should DEFINETLY buy this book as a reference because of the vast amount of intermeddiate knowledge it has.
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