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Summary: Useful book
Review: I am a web design freak and I am fluent in HTML, CSS, etc. I also know a little Perl, C, Javascript and Java. My brother had owned this book and I found it and decided to take a look when I wanted to find out how to use a link rel for a stylesheet about two years ago. I found that it was a little hard to search through the book for the exact topic I wanted, but I did find it so it was lots of help. What I liked best about this book was that it had LOTS of variety. Everytime it presented a code for you, it'd give you two solutions: one in Javascript/text, and one in CSS/text. This was helpful to me because I liked the option of learning both ways when I was finding something out. Also, the book included some things about cookies and perl scripting which I also found helpful. Overall, a good book that's comprehensive but a little confusing to look through at times.
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Summary: Useful book
Review: I am a web design freak and I am fluent in HTML, CSS, etc. I also know a little Perl, C, Javascript and Java. My brother had owned this book and I found it and decided to take a look when I wanted to find out how to use a link rel for a stylesheet about two years ago. I found that it was a little hard to search through the book for the exact topic I wanted, but I did find it so it was lots of help. What I liked best about this book was that it had LOTS of variety. Everytime it presented a code for you, it'd give you two solutions: one in Javascript/text, and one in CSS/text. This was helpful to me because I liked the option of learning both ways when I was finding something out. Also, the book included some things about cookies and perl scripting which I also found helpful. Overall, a good book that's comprehensive but a little confusing to look through at times.
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Summary: Worst book I ever bought
Review: I bought Mastering Javascript and Jscript as a supplement to another book Javascript Goodies. I wanted a good, comprehensive reference. The same day I got Mastering Javasript and Jscript, however, I also wanted to send it back. Wish I had. It's an absolutely useless book. You go to look something up, and all it does is give you a table of items with what you're looking up included in the table. It never tells you what the item is or how to use it--basically all it does is confirm that the item is there in the overall javascript or jscript spec. So, I have to go back to the first book to find this out, or go out onto the internet. The last thing I checked was using jscript to connect to a database via Asp technology. It doesn't even give you a hint. It covers this important subject with just one short paragraph. In it, it tells you to go to a different chapter covering a different technology, LiveWire. It says that the operation to accomplish this is essentially the same as with Livewire, "only the object names, methods and syntax are changed". So it's the same but it's completely different. A person would have to plod through all the information on LiveWire to find this particular info; basically, he'd have to learn LiveWire just to do a simple thing like connect up a database via asp. After all his/her effort, moreover, he'd still have no guarantee that he'd be able to accomplish what he wants because LiveWire and asp are different, so he'd have to rely on guesswork. Or, he'd have to do like I'm doing, look out onto the internet.No information whatsoever was given on how to do this probably simple thing using asp. That's typical of this book--all it ever does is confirm that something is there. (Want to know about document.write? Well, it exists. The end.) It's a complete waste of money and of space. It doesn't even rate one half a star.
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Summary: The best JScript book ever read
Review: I bought this book in March 99, fresh from the presses, and build a 100.000's$ project with it. It realy is great. I'm not a C++ programmer but an advanced CFML and HTML programmer. The other readers might not like this book, because hey have to much or not enough knowledge of Internet programming languages - I guess. This book contains the information I was looking for.
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Summary: A handy day-to-day reference document
Review: I found this book to be very useful. There are many examples that are helpful in developing your JavaScript skills, and there are several more advanced sections that include explaining how JavaScript can be used to link with Java and ActiveX. This book truly helped me develop from a beginner at JavaScript to an expert. My experience before this book was that I was an HTML expert, but didn't have a clue about JavaScript. I am currently doing some web page development work and I routinely reference this book to refresh my memory. I highly recommend this book, though it may be getting out of date a bit, but since there are still many people using Version 4 browsers, this book will ensure you are writing JavaScript code that can be used by most anyone, not just IE5.0 users.
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Summary: This book is excellent
Review: Jaworski explains not only the syntax but basic principles behind the programming. Very handy for anyone, regardless of programming experience! The book will help you to get started very, very quickly. There are great examples, showing you exactly what you can do with Javascript. I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this book - my copy has yet to see my shelf!
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Summary: A crapper
Review: Some of the scripts are useful i na canned way and if you know programming you can perhaps tweak them to your use. But the book does little to help you learn javascript... just example programs and screens.. no teaching of the why's & how's. There are better references on the web for free.
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Summary: The Book is disappointing
Review: The Book has examples which needs to be downloaded from publishers website. The examples often do not work with explorer 5. Though the book deals with cross browser examples but the examples can be downloaded only in a PC and unzipped in a PC. The examples can not be downloaded in a UNIX machine. The book does not deliver its promises at all and overall it was a disappointment.
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Summary: Don't waste your money!
Review: This book contains invalid code samples. I copied one of it's codes exactly and tried to use it with Internet Explorer 5, Netscape Communicator 4.6, and Netscape Navigator 3. They all gave me javascript errors. It spends too much time on talking about Javascript code and it's origins and not nearly enough time on HOW to code. I strongly suggest that you don't buy this.
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Summary: Java Script and J Script
Review: This book I bought from Pakistan and found it excelent to learn Java Script basics. The book's start is very organized and well written but became little confuzing at the end. The book is not crystal clear about the differences in J Script & Java Script and do not tell how to find its alternate in each other respectively. It becomes fuzzy when writer explains about Live Wire programming, otherwise it excelent. I will rate it most suitable for those how want to learn Java Script from the scratch as it covers all basic building blocks an average programmer may require.
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