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Summary: Worthless.
Comment: It's big all right, but completely lacking in practical substance. Read this book and you'll give up before you even start coding. The most basic components of the language, such as datatypes, expressions, variables, etc., are explained in painful and excruciating detail, while solid, useful code examples are absent, presumably left as an exercise to the reader. The large reference section, which at least has some value because it lists all of the methods and properties, reads like the Unix man pages, all crytic explanations with no examples.If you already know how to code but just not in JavaScript, choose JavaScript for the World Wide Web by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith to get you started with basic examples of the sort of tasks suited to JavaScript (field validation, rollovers, cookies, etc). For a more detailed text, try JavaScript Interactive Course by Arman Danesh.
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Summary: invaluable javascript reference
Comment: a wonderful guide to javascript... has a great reference in the back. covers browser compatability, form validation, dynamic html. a little vague on using cookies. provides many examples of code, and points out potential stumbling blocks. Much better than anything by that putz Danny Goodman.
Customer Rating:
Summary: invaluable javascript reference
Comment: a wonderful guide to javascript... has a great reference in the back. covers browser compatability, form validation, dynamic html. a little vague on using cookies. provides many examples of code, and points out potential stumbling blocks.
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Summary: The Best JavaScript Book out there.
Comment: This book is by far the most comprehensive book on JavaScript available. There are no pictures, only text. So if your one for Eye Candy you may not enjoy this book. IF I could sum this book up in one word.... "Complete". This book along with Jennifer Niederst's Web Design in a Nutshell are the only 2 books any html coder will need.
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Summary: This book saved me a lot of suffering.
Comment: I'm embedding JavaScript in a special-purpose web browser, and this book saved me at least a week of work with some abstruse but crucial details of the scope chain. I've found O'Reilly books to be very concise and thorough, which are wonderful qualities for readers who are power users, though not appropriate for many beginners.
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