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Summary: Great intro book
Comment: very complete overview of the topic with well layed out examples. The reference book is a better long term value.
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Summary: Must have a book on Jquery
Comment: Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques is a wonderful introduction to JQuery framework. The book offers many informative code samples and extremely helpful tutorials about how to make JQuery work for you and how to deal with common issues as well as not so common issues such as; acquiring information with the use of AJAX and manipulating tubular data. From the first page it is easy to see that this book is unlike any other.
This book will aid in taking away some of that fretfully complicated mess and help the reader get a sound start with JavaScript code, serving to reveal techniques that will make the reader's code much richer as well as much more efficient.
Unlike many in of it's like this book is designed more for the jQuery beginner. All that the reader need be equipped with is a general knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a firm understanding of the syntax of JavaScript, absolutely no jQuery or framework experience is needed to understand what is being expressed in the book, or to benefit from the information that is brought to light within its pages. That said I must also stress that the book can still be immensely enlightening to those with a great deal more experience with jQuery, it can teach is old pros new and more efficient techniques.
The information provided in this particular book is concise, clear, and essentially easy to understand. Important information is highlighted to ensure that it grabs the reader's attention and the same strategy is used with helpful tips. The code sample throughout the chapters are formatted well and broken down for easier reading, there are also addition sections of code bolstered. Perhaps one of the most useful as well as unique aspects of learning jQuery is the live examples provided on web sites.
I have found that these examples give the reader a better understanding for what the codes really do. The example alone are worth the books weight in gold, they are very high quality and can be applied to various real situations. The examples are also accompanied with screenshots that enrich the information.
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Summary: JQuery Is The Best
Comment: I love JQuery. This book is a good reference and will give you insight. I think they could have done a better job in picking the examples but what they provide is solid.
There are some excellent tutorials linked on the JQuery home site that give a better intro than the book, but having read those first the book brings some more distintions and is worthwhile.
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Summary: 0-60 with jQuery
Comment: Like many of the other reviewers have stated, this is a great book. It addresses a fundamental shortcoming in Javascript documentation but more importantly the publishing of jQuery books solidifies jQuery itself as a top-shelf Javascript library.
I found the Learning jQuery title was easily usable like an expanded reference guide by jumping from chapter to chapter picking up the necessary bits that I needed as I worked through adding jQuery into my existing application. If I needed straight dirt, I went to the reference guide to look up the API and its parameters and if I needed some working examples I dug into the Learning jQuery for all the details.
The authors did a fine job of writing examples (not too simple and not too esoteric or advanced). While I expected the book would make me a more powerful jQuery user, I didn't expect that it would also make me a stronger Javascript programmer. My application is looking and working a lot better as a result.
I'd recommend these titles to anyone who is either:
A) Looking for a Javascript library to standardize on or use heavily for their projects. jQuery has great community support and authors are supporting it also.
B) Existing jQuery "dabblers" who want to master the library as well as become better programmers (the information provided on Javascript closures alone is great!)
Kudos to the authors - well done!
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Summary: Wonderful Learning Material
Comment: This book is a superb stepping stone into the jQuery world. If you are new or just started playing with jQuery and cannot wait to learn more, I highly recommend this book.
I am big on learning by example and this book does not fall short on them. It gradually eases the reader through examples bringing them up to speed quickly on concepts, but it is also easy to skip into any section and plunge right into it without having to read pages of setup on the scenario. This book is covered with code examples, encouraging a "get your hands dirty" philosophy. The examples are also practical real world situations like "Loading Data on Demand" (AJAX) and "Pagination".
The real gold is that these examples answer many of the questions I see on the jQuery discussion group all the time. Each example has the code so you can get the run-down quickly, and then detailed explanations of what's going which is useful for explaining those oddities that always occur in programming.
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