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Summary: Excellent for Beginners
Review: Great book if you have absolutely no real programming experience (outside of HTML). Easy to read, with a line by line breakdown of example scripts -- so within the first few chapters you'll be able to actually have a feel for what's going on in other people's scripts.
The book doesn't attempt to be comprehensive, so it does look like you'll need to get another "advanced" book after finishing this one. Also, be forewarned that this book DOES have coding errors in it -- quite a few of them, in fact.
All in all you can learn a great deal & have a lot of fun with this book -- kudos to the author for making something clear when so many others have made it completely obtuse (this is the 3rd JavaScript book I bought and the only one that has really taught me anything about it) --- although they should have hired a better proof reader on the code examples!
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Summary: Excellent beginner's book
Review: Excellent examples. The author makes many references to pages that are on the web so you can see the scripts in action. It helps a lot, when other books I've seen just describe or show a picture of what it will do. Would also be good as a reference manual!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I think this book is a must for any javascript beginner. Nick's writing style was very clear and concise. I would recommend spending the 23 dollars.
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Summary: Well done book to get you started, but not very advanced
Review: All in all this is a well written book with some well-done done examples, but there are two things that should be noted: 1. You should have prior knowledge of HTML and a scripting language (preferably JavaScript) and 2. Don't expect this book to answer all your questions. Although the book is well done, it is limited in scope. It's a great book and you'll learn a thing or two, but expect to pick up another more advanced book after you're done with this one to continue your education.
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Summary: Great for Beginer terrible for experts
Review: Well after visiting his site you could get most all of his scripts for free but the book goes much more in debth on what each line of code means and why they are there. If you dont like the scripts on his page don't buy the book. I knew nothing about Java Script and now I not only know how to use Java Script but I know what each line of code does. Great for beginers to Java Script!
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Summary: A bit of content, a bit hype and alot of green pages
Review: Does anyone remember the Music Construction Set by Electronic Arts first published in 1983/84 for the Apple //e? Same kind of wonderkid type hype. Thought this type of marketing crud was done and over with... Guess not. ;') Well, for the book. I went to Borders in NY's World Financial Center, grabbed 13 books on JavaScript and sat down for 5 hours and believe or not with the likes of Russian speaking tourists, homeless getting the boot by Borders Security and the guy next to me snoring and drooling I read almost all of the books (not cover to cover, but looking thru and reading sections). Without a doubt this book was on the top 3 of the 13. But I didn't buy it. Instead I bought Netscape's JavaScript 1.2 official book and the JavaScript Sourcebook (just for the summary section alone it is worth it). So if you are a professional programmer looking for a serious book I would not recommend it. If you are a new to JavaScript and programming general (which most are) then go out and purchase this book at your own risk. The prose is good, the layout is marginal and the coloration is terrible. If you can get over the layout and coloration (lite-puke green, whoever's choice was that?) it is worth 1/2 what they ask.
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Summary: Javascript for humans by human
Review: I have not read the whole book but I have never read so much of a tech book at one reading (except for "Learning Perl"). I bought 2 other javascript books. One of those "learn it all by dawn" and another O'Reilly (the definitive guide). I use them as reference. This book brings you right into it. It's "hello world" writ large and interesting. "Yeah, oh yeah, so that's how that works" is my response most of the time. Nick breaks down each example and shows you what is going on. It reminds me of how I taught English: teach the students words, their properties; the parts of speech and sentence syntax and then let them use their imagination to construct sentences. If you are already a javascript expert then gee this would not be the book for you. But if you believe like I that javascript can be useful but you don't know how to use it then buy this book.
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Summary: Some nice examples, poorly written and uninformitive
Review: Although most "do-it-yourself" computer books are poorly written, this one apidmizes the stereo type. The reading level is that of a fourth grader and the book contained no substance. The only semi-good thing about this book is the CD ROM full of scripts and the examples. I learned nothing from this book and was insulted by the lack of grammatical structure.
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Summary: A must-have book for beginners!
Review: I've been working with HTML for a few years now, but ever since Javascript came on the scene I've kept away from it, as I was scared and thought it was "hard core programming". Finally I bit the bullet and went to buy a book on Javascript. I looked through all the dense, confusing, propeller-head books on the shelves, and then I found Nick's book. Incredible - absolutely incredible. Within 15 minutes I finally understood how Javascript worked! Within an hour I was working away in Javascript like I'd known it for months! Granted, if you already know a lot about Javascript, this book probably isn't for you. But if you were like me - interested, yet no knowledge whatsoever, this is definitely the book for you. Entertaining, easy to understand, REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES (which is much more than most other Javascript books can say)... just amazing. Buy it. 'nuff said.
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Summary: A very Good book
Review: This was a good book. I liked it being new to JavaScript. The reason I give it an 9 is because Nic did not cover the very basics of why/when to put braces/()/; and some other little things for the basic. BUt, besides having not covered the why/when to put braces and stuff like that, I really enjoyed this book. It starts to cover things right off that bat without much gibber jabber that most books have. The css/layers chapter was very nice too and I enjoyed that. Best of all, it covers javascript much swifter than some books like "JavaScript Unleashed" does. Of course, JS Unleashed is a good book too, but a little bit too long to read(about 800-1000) pages. Overall, I enjoyed this book very much, and recomend you get it too.
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