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Summary: Complete and easy to follow
Comment: My company had bought one copy of several books on JavaScript and everyone started borrowing Beginning JavaScript. So we bought several more! It is complete, easy to follow - for both beginning programmers and experienced programmers new to JavaScript. We were particularly interested in generating XML files. The 'advanced' book we bought didn't cover it, but Beginning JavaScript did. We couldn't be happier with it!
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Summary: An excellent book
Comment: When this book arrived I thought my gosh what am I in for here, it's got nearly 1000 pages! But then I started to work through and was pleasantly surprised at the effort the author has put into ensuring that the reader understands everything being set forth. It's particularly good that the basics of important material from previous chapters are briefly reiterated when they are being put into practical use in the next chapter.
The only reservation I have is with the exercises at the end of each chapter; it would have been good to have had small exercise sections through each chapter instead of just a broad sweep of a few exercises at the end. A lot of material is covered and I found it hard to absorb except in very small sections. Still, if this were the case, the book would probably be twice the length! It all comes down to what suits different readers. It's great that the code for the various examples can be downloaded from the publisher's site, but I find it's best to type the code in line by line and read the explanatory text with it.
I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone starting out webpage design. It will be money well spent.
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Summary: Decent
Comment: Some good examples. I was able to use this title as a suppliment to a course.
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Summary: Excellent resource for general Programming understanding too!
Comment: I have spent the past 6 months purchasing/reading numerous books about a variety of programming languages (i.e. ASP, Visual Basic, C++, PHP, VBScript, Javascript, XML, SQL etc.) to become adept at a high level in web development project management to better understand why each language is chosen over another in any given scenario. I also enrolled in an online Intro to Programming class for the past 8 weeks that focused on the C++ language. I started reading this book from the beginning and immediately the basic concepts for programming that the C++ class tried to instill were so much more clear in this book's presentation that many lightbulbs have been going off moment by moment as I read further. This book lays out a great foundation for understanding programming in an organized and easy to grasp presentation of the material. Of course it's all about JavaScript but it gives the much needed foundation for those of us who know HTML but haven't gone on to the next step to fully dive into scripting languages and beyond to create dynamic websites.
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Summary: Excellent book...
Comment: For years I'd gotten by with learning/copying JavaScript from existing websites, and used "JavaScript for the World Wide Web visual Quickstart guide" as my meager handbook. I finally decided to get serious about it.
Paul Wilton's book is very well-written and easy to follow. Even skimming the stuff I thought I knew I'd find cool new things I'd never heard of.
As a bonus, his section on Regular Expressions, another topic I'd found difficult for years, is a real eye-opener. He goes through the RegExp thought process step by step, gradully revealing more powerful options, with useful examples. I'm finally going to USE Regular Expressions! And I'm not the only one who found this enlightening. Wilton was hired to cover Regular Expressions in a few other books as well.
In short, I doubt I'll ever need another JavaScript book, and this was money well spent.
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