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Summary: Clearest javascript book I have encountered
Review: I am an advanced programmer/webmaster, and I found this book to contain clear, concrete, and usable examples of javascript. Pedagogy is very clear, both for beginners and novices. CD comes with code that works. Buy this book if you want to learn or incorporate javascript into your web pages.Code always contains browser type checking to provide compatibility with browser types. New edition is due out August 2000 so you might want to get that edition.
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Summary: Good for beginners
Review: I think this book is exellent for beginners. It gives the appropriate code and gives very good explanations about the code given. I read this book from front to back and never stopped learning. I thought parts of it were kinda self explanatory, but I'm not sure how smart other people are. I'm glad I bought the book because I put a lot of it to use right on my personal site. In all though, I give it a five because it helped me out a lot.
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Summary: An Excellent Resource
Review: This book is excellent. The scripts Heinle uses as examples throught the book are easy to understand & modify to suit your needs. But more importantly, a lot of the scripts aren't just for show. Most of them have a practical purpose & can be used for important functions like form validation & browser detection.
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Summary: Save money. Download JavaScripts from the web for free.
Review: There's not that much in the book which isn't available from websites. If you need scripts then you can either go to commercial sites or even university sites to get tutorials. Javascript is certainly worth getting to grips with but this potentially good book is hideous to read (probably nothing to do with the talented young author). There's so much choice available in titles now so take time over your purchase. However, this book may become better in future editions.
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Summary: Borrow this from the library
Review: When you first get started with this book, it's fun to see how easily you can do the first few scripts and it's great to see your page displaying your own code. After the first few examples, however, I found myself ready for a "real" resource on javascript. The author's tone sometimes seems to tend toward "you don't need to know this" and he therefore abruptly stops talking about something. Well, I DO need to know it if I'm going to apply the lessons to my own projects, and just because I don't have a lot of programming experience doesn't mean that I was having trouble keeping up. The book is not so good as a reference, for that reason, because if you look up an operation, it will ONLY tell you how to do the specific project in the book. It won't give you an overview of that subject, nor will it explain why the project works. Also, most of the projects in the book are outdated by now (no fault of the author's) so at this time you can not only find a simpler and more reliable way to acheive the same results, but the browsers no longer support his methods. A lot of the things he'll tell you about what browsers can and can't do are obsolete, and his guesses about what will be used in the future have turned out wrong. Plus, a lot of his methods were never safe to use on multiple browsers. But the most important flaw I found in this book is the fact that there are typos and mistakes in the code examples. You can type in the code exactly as written in the book and it won't work. In some cases this could be because you're not using the browser he was thinking of, but in many cases you can turn the page and see the code written again, but it's got a small but significant change. You can compare both pages, looking for the differences and guessing which one is correct, but when you're just learning javascript it's a shame to have to debug someone else's code!
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Summary: Excellent First Steps-No Prior Experience Necessary!
Review: I found this book to be informative and concise. Several JavaScript books that I've read in the past required some knowledge of programming concepts. This is definitely not one of them. The author explains the code snippets line by line with references no less! (e.g. line A containing...etc...does this...., line B....etc) I highly recommend this book for the non-programmer or programming novice. Much better than most of the "for Dummies" series.
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Summary: ...Soo easy
Review: Being one of those hands-on author of small websites, i came across this amazing book. Nick Heinle showed me the intuitive approach and i am ever so gratefull to him: What at first seemed like a closed world of geek-talk, suddently became a fun game. With no programming experience whatsoever, i was making interactive web-design in 2 hours flat.
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Summary: Has Potential, But...
Review: I would say this book is a good introduction to JavaScript, however the author seems to lack the ability to thoroughly explain all of the concepts. The content presented is incomplete and fails to give an overall picture of the power of the language. This book serves as a good 'plain english' companion to a more in-depth book.
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Summary: muddled and unsatisfactory
Review: Nick is clearly an extremely talented code writer, but this in itself does not equip him well to teach others. He seems impatient with his readers, and this one is left feeling very confused. Many of the examples lack cross browser compatability; one even includes a visual basic script which seems laughable, given the title of the book. The text accompanying the examples is irritating because it is often not clear which words are javascript syntax and which are not. Bizarre formatting of the code on the bundled CDrom does not make for an easy ride, either.
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Summary: abc123
Review: this book was written by a kid and some of the scripts dont work but i would still recomend it to the javascript beginner.
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