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Summary: Excellent Reference section, but TERRIBLE examples
Comment: In my opinion, an example should serve to illustrate a conceptthat's just been presented. This book, however, frequently uses examples to introduce new information while provide little supplemental help to make sense of this new info. This makes for a very frustrating learning experience!...
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Summary: THE BEST STUFF ON JAVASCRIPT !
Comment: Though I didn't need to learn JavaScript for my job, I was curious to know how it looks like...This book is excellent. You can learn very quickly how to write simple programs with web-page interface (especially if you have already a knowledge of C/C++ and HTML languages). Everything is thoroughly detailed and very well explained. It's also the ultimate reference book for a confirmed JavaScript programmer. O'Reilly computing books are definitively the best.
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Summary: THE Javascript book for computer programmers!
Comment: All Javascript books I've seen are aimed at beginners. This is the only one that gets your hands dirty with true blue computer science. No other book on JS is going to tell you the language uses prototype-based inheritence instead of class-based inheritence; in fact Javascript has a lot of similarities to the LambdaMOO scripting language, and I suspect the latter influenced Netscape engineers.With this book I've learned how to visit all objects in the document tree and print out the source code for the event handlers. No "Dummies" or "21 Days" books are going to give you the theoretical grounding to do that! If you have an interest in computer languages in addition to having a need to script your browser, this book is for you. It has a great reference section for looking up language features and the various Window objects as well. If you want to build complex Web applications that use a lot of client side Javascript, this book will open new possiblities to you. If you still own the Second Edition you owe it to yourself to buy a replacement; this Third Edition is a far superior book.
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Summary: Pretty Good, Probably Great for C/C++/Java Programmer
Comment: An overall good book. The reference section is the strongest point, however the though of simply reading a reference section is terrifying. If you already know one of the languages, or are familiar with Object oriented Programming, this is very probably the book for you. If you have not programmed before, do a little online reading, then try this book. if your willing to put the time in, you will learn a lot. Before reading this I knew HTML, and had read some online tutorials of JavaScript, which classifies me somewhere outside the realm of programmer. The first 11 chapters were rather abstract and somewhat confusing, and would have been moreso if i had not already read up a little. But then it started making sense. you don't really learn how to write any script for real until about chapter 12, but then it really starts making sense. I had to read the beginning again after finishing the book, but now I feel like I have a firm handle on the topic. Throughout the book many (many) referneces are made to the similarities and ifferences between JScript and C/C++/Java. There is an entire chapter devouted to java and Jscript working together.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good, Probably Great for C/C++/Java Programmer
Comment: An overall good book. The reference section is the strongest point, however the though of simply reading a reference section is terrifying. If you already know one of the languages, or are familiar with Object oriented Programming, this is very probably the book for you. If you have not programmed before, do a little online reading, then try this book. if your willing to put the time in, you will learn a lot. Before reading this I knew HTML, and had read some online tutorials of JavaScript, which classifies me somewhere outside the realm of programmer. The first 11 chapters were rather abstract and somewhat confusing, and would have been moreso if i had not already read up a little. But then it started making sense. you don't really learn how to write any script for real until about chapter 12, but then it really starts making sense. I had to read the beginning again after finishing the book, but now I feel like I have a firm handle on the topic. Throughout the book many (many) referneces are made to the similarities and ifferences between JScript and C/C++/Java. There is an entire chapter devouted to java and Jscript working together.
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