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Summary: The K&R of Javascript
Comment: The book has a very good introduction to the core of client side javascript. It is a great reference for coming back to those things that you get kind of rusty on like "regular expressions" and "creating your own objects". The rest of the book is an incredibly comprehensive reference which goes into considerable detail. It's the kind of detail that a compiler manual goes into. I would prefer a version with indexes like a study bible. If you read most of this book you wont have to go around copying other peoples code snippets because you'll be to busy making up your own scripting libraries. I wish that this author would add about 300 pages on Server Side JScripting and Active Server Pages. I'm sure he could take the magic out of it in a way that most programmers could pickup in a matter of hours.
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Summary: Great reference that makes learning JavaScript fun and easy!
Comment: This book is an excellent complement to Danny Goodman's 'Dynamic HTML'. I was able to put my new-found knowledge distilled from both books, together with ASP, to good use in creating a 30-page web application for marketing a local institution abroad. In practice, I learned that the greatest challenge facing the 'Dynamic HTML' author is providing consistency across the main browsers. Working with IE was fun: Navigator 4.0 has some catching up to do.
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Summary: Very Thorough
Comment: If you are a professional programmer or a computer science college student who wants to learn JavaScript the "right" or "computer-science" way, you only need this book (David Flanagan's third edition of "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide").The e-mail support is also very good with the author himself involved in the process. I recommend it as a University textbook for a "JavaScript Language Programming" course and to everyone seriously interested in learning everything that there is to know about the language. If you want a "cookbook recipe" type of text, get a different book.
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Summary: A+
Comment: This book is a must for anyone seriously interested in Javascript. It is not a 101 "how-to" book. You won't find a wealth of script snipplets. If you want that, get them off the net. This book is a serious reference manual to help you learn the theory behind JS. When it all boils down, clipping scripts out of books (or off the web) can only take you so far. This book will can give you what you need to CREATE, not just snip & clip. But, you'll have to STUDY it. It's a "must have" book and one that serious scripters will use over and over. Serious A+.
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Summary: Good programming tips, lacks key examples
Comment: Although overall a good book, sometimes the lack of examples is very problematic. For example, section 12.2.4 (Javascript in URL's) does not give a single example that shows the URL script inside an href HTML tag. If somebody was not already familiar with this, they may find the context very confusing.Another example is the reference entry for the 'window.onerror' command. The odd syntax of this command almost demands examples. I did not know that the handler function reference was not suppose to have parenthesis around it until I looked it up in a different book.
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