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Summary: Excellent instructions and visual examples
Review: This one is another Visual Quick Start winner. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the series, Visual Quick Start books combine simple step-by-step instructions with visual examples of code and output. This book like others in the series is easy for novices and a handy reference for seasoned programmers."JavaScript for the World Wide Web" organizes its lessons by tasks. The easier tasks (such as creating a screen that says "Hello World") preceed the more difficult ones (such as testing the user's browser for various plugins). But essentially, a person can read the basic chapters to develop a foundation and then skip ahead to the desired task. Another added benefit of this book is that the authors update it with common user errors. I was having a lot of trouble with one section and found to my delight that the Tip provided on that page addressed my error directly. This is a welcome change from something like the For Dummies series which sometimes has obnoxious callouts that don't help you at all. A word of warning about programming in JavaScript. If you are using a Web Editor it might prioritize the placement of certain HTML tags regardless of where you put them. As a result, it might place an object such as a named image in front of the code that declares the object. As a result, your script will work on a PC which is too fast to account for such an error, but not on the Internet which is slow enough to catch it. Try to write your HTML in a text editor as much as possible or at least understand the quirks of your Web Editor. As a programming novice who did not know JavaScript a few months ago, I rate this book highly.
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