Customer Rating:  
Summary: Good book for someone with patience
Comment: This is a great guide to how to write JavaScript! Not for the complete beginner, but it's still easy for the person who isn't an expert. You need to have patience, so if your one of those people who think you can learn a computer language overnight with one of those "24 hour" training books forget this book. Otherwise, if you really want to learn JavaScript and know the "ins and outs" of the language, this is for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: This is the companion book for HTML and Dynamic HTML. Just like those two books, this is another excellent book. If you want to learn JavaScript, don't miss this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good and reliable
Comment: I needed to learn Javascript in a hurry, and by many accounts this one was the way to go. I wasn't disappointed. The book is well-oragnized, easy to go through, complete and works well as a reference. No muss, no fuss.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not bad, could be better
Comment: I've got a real problem with this traditional-computer science approach of learning all about variables and structure but nothing that you can actually use.This book is better than the previous book I tried, but it still doesn't allow you to really practice the code to learn it (to me, the only way you can really learn). It starts out really good, but still spends too much time on variables and structure and not enough real world code. The cookbook (additional book) is helpful but the code is too complex to learn Javascript on your own. Look, books don't seem to be doing a very good job. If you want to learn Javascript, goto Yahoo.com and search for Javascript tutorial. I've just tried a few, but in an hour or two I've learned 20x as much as trying to read the book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: I am pretty new to JavaScript and so I decided to buy three book to get me started: this one, the Visual Quickstart Guide by Peachpit Press and The official Netscape JavaScript Guide.I started with the Visual Quickstart Guide to get a basic understanding of JavaScript but soon noticed that I was just copying the scripts in the book and didn't really learn any JavaScript. This is where the Netscape Guide came into play. It took me through everything step by step and I am now able to actually programm my own stuff. I use THIS book mainly to learn the stuff the previous two books didn't cover and also as a reference, one of the really big plusses of the book. Half of the book consists of a reference that lists all the objects, properties, even-handlers and whatnot. Just amazing, has helped me numerous times! I cannot recommend this book for absolute beginners though. It just doesn't take you through the process of learning step by step.
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