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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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Summary: Not bad
Comment: A decent exposition. Good intro to JQuery. Index is very poor. Basic functions (like ".ready") are not listed. I shouldn't have to sequentially search the book to find something I read a few days before. When I instead find myself using Google it's clear there is a problem.
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Summary: jQuery from Server Side Programmer
Comment: A framework with good documentation! My background is in PHP and MySQL. This book is an excellent tool for quickly understanding what jQuery offers as a framework. I started reading the first few chapters, then jumped around to sections that focused on our development needs.
Sometimes books offer poor examples, or even buggy code samples. I didn't do all the examples in the book, but the ones I did do were well documented and made sense. "Learning jQuery" helped me immediately start implementing jQuery into our projects, even though my JavaScript is a bit weak. I still use it as a reference book.
I would say that the section on AJAX could be a bit stronger. For someone who is not familiar with AJAX, this might be a little vague.
All in all, thumbs up!
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