Rating:  Summary: Great for Novice to Advanced Programmers, for Beginners - OK Review: First off let me tell you my background reading this book. I have no "real world" programming experence. I have however, taken several college programming courses (C++, Java, COBOL, etc). With that background, I found this book to be wonderful! Before I read it, I didn't have the first clue about javascript. I would try doing something and get frustrated and give up. I got 10 chapters into this book and I was already adding cool stuff to my personal homepage. Now if you've never programmed in your life, you may get a little confused with this book. However, you will probably get confused with ANY book. I honestly believe that the fundamentals of programming need to be taught to you. You just can't learn programming for the first time from a book. You will have questions and you will get confused and things will need to be explained to you. You will also need to ask questions. So I would suggest taking some sort of course or getting some training first, then pick up this book if you're new to programming in general.
Rating:  Summary: BEST Book Review: I work for a company that finished a multimillion project on the WEB in 5 months. Most of it front end manipulations were done with the help of this book. Remote Scripting and this book will help you make big bucks.
Rating:  Summary: A good javascript book for beginners Review: This book is my formal introduction to the Javascript world. I think it's absolutaly a good book for beginners. It lists all the objects and every properties and methods of that object with a small example. But I couldn't find the answer to my later on questions from this book, such as how to create a hidden form dynamically from within a javascript funciton.
Rating:  Summary: Sorry, I hadn't read the book throughoutly when I reviewed Review: This book is so wonderful. I'm sorry for having wrote bad about this book because I hadn't read the book throughoutly at that time. I'm so thrilled with this book. I would recommend this book to anyone like me. However, I need to know HTML first to understand fully this wonderful book. Thanks a lot for writing this valuable source.
Rating:  Summary: This book is the best Review: This book is the best. It has all the explanations and examples. I was doing some back-end programming and forgot JavaScript, I just turned to this book to remind me all the tricks and usages. However, this book is not for beginners who don't know Java or programming language. For immediate users only.
Rating:  Summary: A most useful book Review: I am working on a javascript heavy netscape application, and not a day goes by that I don't crack this book open to look up something. Anytime I need information on a subject I haven't encountered, it's in there, from working with Java applets to dealing with date formats, or whatever. While I do have some programming experience, this was my first javascript book, and found it useful to the beginner as well. I don't loan this one out either.
Rating:  Summary: Best JavaScript book I've ever owned Review: Of all the reference books I have on HTML, XML, Notes, etc, this is the only book I won't loan out to people because I'm afraid I might not get it back. Book is very well organized--each chapter corresponds to a specific Javascript object. All properties and methods are spelled out for each object. Especially useful is the table for each property/method that shows what versions of IE/Netscape the property/method is available in. Very helpful for designing web applications that must be viewed in a multi-browser environment!
Rating:  Summary: All I was looking for and more Review: I was overwhelmed by the selection of books on JavaScript, each 1,000+ pages and supposedly "the complete. . ." "the comprehensive. . .", etc. I looked at the various choices in bookstores, and eventually threw in my lot with Goodman's "Bible". I didn't regret it. Not only is the book great for learning JavaScript step by step, but it's well organized enough to use purely as a reference once you have a handle on the language. There may be more complete manuals, but I'm convinced that this is the best compromise between tutorial and reference. At this point, however, the time is definitely ripe for a 4th edition.
Rating:  Summary: What About the Beginner? Review: I think this is a wonderful book, but feel that Danny Goodman needs to remember the beginners who are just getting their feet wet in OOP. I have read the first five chapters, and now think I have a grasp on event handlers, objects and the like. It would be nice if he could include a complete script at the beginning to reference to while trying to explain what an object, event or method looks like.
Rating:  Summary: Update needed Review: This book is a better reference manual than it is a "how-to" book. At times the lessons take itty-bitty steps, but at the same time fails to explain some basic terminology. Much of the information is outdated. It's a fairly complete reference, but not the book to teach you Javascript.
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