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Summary: JavaScrimp
Review: I chose to buy this book because I liked the concept of having a book which was supposed to be "essential" for the real Webmaster world. However, I find (I'm still struggling through) myself wasting time on trying to figure out all the coding mistakes. The mistakes start in chapter 1. The zip files which you download off the net (which contain the code for the projects mentioned throughout the book) are also done in a poor manner, the book does not refer you to a certain file. Another example is that you have to figure out where to move the images files in order to have them sourced correctly to the images. I would not recommend this book until a new corrected, updated edition with CD will be available.
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Summary: Good concept- bad book.
Review: I chose to buy this book because I liked the concept of having a book which was supposed to be "essential" for the real Webmaster world. However, I find (I'm still struggling through) myself wasting time on trying to figure out all the coding mistakes. The mistakes start in chapter 1. The zip files which you download off the net (which contain the code for the projects mentioned throughout the book) are also done in a poor manner, the book does not refer you to a certain file. Another example is that you have to figure out where to move the images files in order to have them sourced correctly to the images. I would not recommend this book until a new corrected, updated edition with CD will be available.
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Summary: Well done book.
Review: I see that there are readers of this book that are a little upset that they were unable to use this book as a learning tool, but as a reference, this book can't be beat.As the title states, it is for Web Professionals. If you are just learning, I reccomend that you start small and work up to this book, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Good book for those familar with programming
Review: I thought this book was great. It gives a quick enough overview to keep the attention of a student or professional. This book is not going to be a reference manual, but it is good enough to teach you the basics so you can get a feel for the language, what it does, and put it on your resume.
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Summary: Can I rate 0 stars ???
Review: If you want a book that awakes your worst instincts, just buy it. Hundreds of lines to explain how a while loop works and minimalist info on Javascript itself. Full of bad jokes about a bad taste "virtual boss" obsessed with adding stupid goodies to your pages.
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Summary: Learn JavaScript Now! (but not with this book)
Review: Some of the hardest things to find in life are people who hate pizza, short lines and good Java books. This book is nothing short of a waist of time if you are not experienced with Javascript. The examples in this book are consistantly flawed with mistakes that would make any programmer want to slap the editor. There is no resource for accessing the scripts from the web like in the other essential books, leaving you to figure out how the hell to get the script working because the example they gave you is erroring all over the place. The only way I could recommend this book would be if you were looking for ideas on how to program. It gives some interesting concepts of how to accomplish some neet things with Javascript. It might make a good companion for study but I would keep a dish of holy water and some salt nearby, you'll need it. Other than that stay away from this book, I wouldn't wish this catastrophy on my worst enemy...well maybe.
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Summary: Good idea.. poor delivery -- beginners don't bother!
Review: This book was of little help. When I look up code samples, I would like to see the whole thing. They write one line, explain it, write another line, explain it, but never quite put it all together in a manner that is easily duplicated. In particular, I needed to validate phone numbers, their example broke the phone number out into a separate box for area code to validate. How does that help me for international phone numbers?
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