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Summary: Disappointed
Review: "Pop up windows using JavaScript" would be a more accurate title. I learned more from online tutorials than this book delivered.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: "Pop up windows using JavaScript" would be a more accurate title. I learned more from online tutorials than this book delivered.
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Summary: Great for a beginner like me!
Review: Hi
I got this book since i have read by example books before and loved them.I really enjoyed this book too.This book is for beginners that know basically what programming is but don't actually know any language.
The lessons are slow paced so you get it, with plenty of examples.The only complaint i might have is that the book has some typos in the code but i have figured them all out and corrected them, proving that i am learning(I am yet to see a programming book with no typos in the code examples.).
I highly recommend this book to a newbie that has read something like "Programming for dummies" as a primer.
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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: I bought this book to find out how to print variables from a javascript to a web page. Sounds simple, right? Sounds like page #1, right? Not only does this book never tell you how to do this simple and very basic operation, it pretends that no such thing could ever be expected from a book on scripting! It tells you how to print variable to popup widows and that's it. It pretends that this is all the output any person using JavaScript would or should ever need. They never address output to the web page itself. Never even mention it. Not once. That's just what I need to do with my arrays, print them to a popup alert window. I would have appreciated at least a small message as to *why* they don't tell you about such simple and basic stuff. This book is really pretty bad. I suggest you try another one on JavaScripting. It's bad, and it's disingenous.
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Summary: I don't really know, but I don't think so.
Review: I never really finished this book, I guess it tells you the basic things, I went from the cover to the end, and it really didn't help me out. I got it to learn specific things, new to "JavaScript 1.5" but it didn't tell me either. IE: scrollbar colors, and windows and yada yada. I don't know if it covers all it should, thanks. But if you're a beginner it's okay, I think.
*alex
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Summary: I don't really know, but I don't think so.
Review: I never really finished this book, I guess it tells you the basic things, I went from the cover to the end, and it really didn't help me out. I got it to learn specific things, new to "JavaScript 1.5" but it didn't tell me either. IE: scrollbar colors, and windows and yada yada. I don't know if it covers all it should, thanks. But if you're a beginner it's okay, I think.
*alex
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Summary: Its ok for a begginer - except for the mistakes in the book
Review: I picked this book up having no experience with programming or javascript. I would like to state that the 3 star rating is based on only going through about a third of the book at this point.
For an absolute beginner, many of the concepts have been relatively easy to grasp up to this point and the book seems relatively straight forward and easy to read. All I seem to be making is pop up alert boxes, of course using different reasons to be making them. Being new to javascript...this could be the norm.
My main complaint about this book is all of the errors I have found in it, which consequently all seem to be in the examples. For a person as new to this as I am, these types of screw ups that could have been caught with a decent proofer, cause a lot of confusion. I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how the typeof value of x equaled what they showed, because it made absolutely no sense. Of course I finally reaslized that someone had inserted the wrong graphic and never noticed it.
I also went in circles in another area about the ternary conditional operator (?:) until I gave up and moved ahead and then realized that they had printed the incorrect answer to the equation.
Considering the number of proofing slips and I am only 1/3 through, I am going to be purchasing a different book.
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Summary: Not for the beginner!
Review: I was sent this book by my book club by mistake (waited too long and had to buy it.)... I started to read it and realized that it didn't start at the basics like I needed. HOWEVER after going through the wrox book "Begining JavaScript" and then picking this book back up I did learn a few different aspects of JavaScript that were not covered by the Wrox book. The book does bring to light a few different perspectives that might help somebody with certain programming needs, but that's about it. I am not knocking this book it does have it's place. Final thought is figure out what you need and if other books don't deliver this one might :)
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Summary: Best Book On JavaScript I've Ever Read
Review: This is the best book on JavaScript I've ever read. Of course, it's the only book I've read, but that's not the point. Basically this book will help the beginner to grasp the fundamentals of the language. The wording is simple and there are (as the title suggests) plenty of examples to follow (you can download all source code from the Publisher's website).It is definitely not for the intermediate to the advance JavaScript writer. It is beautifully written to hold your hand through the very basics of the language. After completing each chapter, you should have a firm understanding of the concepts. Then, when you have completed this book, if you become a happy Java fan, I highly recommend buying an advanced JavaScript book to pick up where this one finished.
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Summary: Best Book On JavaScript I've Ever Read
Review: This is the best book on JavaScript I've ever read. Of course, it's the only book I've read, but that's not the point. Basically this book will help the beginner to grasp the fundamentals of the language. The wording is simple and there are (as the title suggests) plenty of examples to follow (you can download all source code from the Publisher's website). It is definitely not for the intermediate to the advance JavaScript writer. It is beautifully written to hold your hand through the very basics of the language. After completing each chapter, you should have a firm understanding of the concepts. Then, when you have completed this book, if you become a happy Java fan, I highly recommend buying an advanced JavaScript book to pick up where this one finished.
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