Javascript Cookbook

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Summary: One of the greatest programming books I've ever read!
Review: A tremendous book! A must have for every one who wants to learn JavaScript and/or spruce up their web page! This book not only teaches JavaScript from the ground up but also provides many JavaScript examples to help the reader not only to learn the language better, but also to have JavaScript enhancements on their page.

An excellent book that is not only a great starting book, but also a tremendous resource.

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Summary: I learned JavaScript in 2 days with this book
Review: JavaScript Cookbook helped me learn JavsScript in only two days. The book not only leads you through the paces of JavaScript, but has an example on nearly every other page. The book is also full of reference material. After Mr. Cohen teaches you the basics, he puts every object, property and method of JavaScript and Web Pages in Reference form.

I not only use this book now for JavaScript programming, but for reference on all objects of a Web Page. I purchased and Active Server Pages book and a VB Script book when I purchased this. I use this book to compliment what the others left out concerning Web Page objects.

One minor issue, there are a lot of grammatical errors and misspellings in the book.

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Summary: Worth only as a Dummie's introductory book on the subject
Review: The first edition of this book suffers from a number of typos that can cause the JavaScript beginner a LOT of headaches! While there are many cross-references within the text, there is no list of tables, list of figures or list of listings with page numbers. I still recommend the book; but would like to see a better job of technical editing done.

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Summary: This book has aged badly
Review: This book was published in 1997 and unfortunately has aged badly. A newer revision would be required to bring it up to date with more modern standards and web browsers. Chapter 6 is a nice example of the problem: "What's New Since Navigator 2.0".

I highly recommend the O'Reilly "Javascript & DHTML Cookbook" instead. The O'Reilly book was published in 2003 and is much more relevant to the current world.

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Summary: This book has aged badly
Review: This is not a book if you are learning JavaScript but the most useful reference book for those of us who need a quick look up. There is not a quick reference if you are yet to explore the world of JavaScript but those who already have you cannot remember everything. The exercises are short and right to the point as this entire book was and so easy to follow. I thought the book was great and I could not survive without it!

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Summary: A wonderful reference book, and quick look-ups!
Review: This is not a book if you are learning JavaScript but the most useful reference book for those of us who need a quick look up. There is not a quick reference if you are yet to explore the world of JavaScript but those who already have you cannot remember everything. The exercises are short and right to the point as this entire book was and so easy to follow. I thought the book was great and I could not survive without it!

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Summary: not to the point
Review: This is not the best reference manual in the world - that's for sure. I'd say i've opened it less than 10 times and turned back to my 'complete idiots guide to javascript' every time to find the answer after my search in this book.

It just does not seem tailored to help web developers.