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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780980285802
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0980285801
Label: SitePoint
Manufacturer: SitePoint
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: 2007-06-21
Publisher: SitePoint
Studio: SitePoint
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:  
Summary: Advanced topics are explained well
Comment: But lack of basics. For example,
1. inheritance
2. variable scope
This book does explain some topics very well, like DOM, Event, even animation.
This book title should be changed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Didactic
Comment: This book was very helpful to me. The content is presented in a very didactic way.
I would recommend this book to JS beginners like me. I enjoyed the sense of humor that the authors use to "spice" their explanations on something that for many could be quite difficult to "digest": coding.
I don't know if these two guys also work as teachers, but if so, I have the feeling that they would be really good at it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is not a book for beginners!!
Comment: This book simply sucks! IT doesn't explain why it happens, it just gives you something and then you should figure out next.
I don't recommend this book to anyone serious in learning Javascript. Better buy Javascript: The definitive guide, I have read it already, and reading this book is like wasting time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Error - JavaScript does not have associtative arrays
Comment: These boys write in Chapter 2 that JavaScript has associative arrays but it is unfortunately a mistake. They show this snippet of code
var postcodes = [];
postcodes["Armadale"] = 3143;
postcodes["North Melbourne"] = 3051;
postcodes["Camperdown"] = 2050;
postcodes["Annandale"] = 2038;
and state that this is an array with 4 members. But unfortunately this array is empty, only has 4 properties. So, if you write
alert (postcodes.length);
you don't get 4, you get 0!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Maybe for someone else
Comment: Quite frankly, I couldn't make sense out of it. The examples don't seem to work, or they require knowing something that wasn't mentioned in the book. For a book entitled "Simply" I kind of expected that I would be able to write basic javascript by the time I had finished it. Sadly, this was not the case.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Everything you need to learn JavaScript from Scratch! Packed with full-color examples, Simply JavaScript is a step-by-step introduction to programming in JavaScript the right way. Learn how easy it is to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events (such as mouse clicks and key strokes), and design eye-catching animations. Then move into more powerful techniques using the DOM and Ajax. Learn JavaScript's built-in functions, methods, and properties. Easily integrate JavaScript in your web site. Use JavaScript to validate form entries and interact with your users. Understand how to respond to user events. Create animations that bring your web site to life. Start programming using the DOM and Ajax. Unlike other JavaScript books, modern best practices such as progressive enhancement, accessibility and unobtrusive scripting are used from the very beginning. All the code in the book is also cross-browser compatible and downloadable for free, so you can get started instantly!
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