Simply JavaScript |
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Kevin Yank Cameron Adams
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Pages: 424 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0980285801
Pub: SITEPOINT
Pub date: 2007-07-10
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 74791
Reader Reviews:
Great Book, Great Advice, But Not For Beginners (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is a very good introduction to Javascript and good Javascript coding practices. The examples are useful and the simple code library provided is also very useful. However if you are a beginner then you should really have a look at a simpler book. The only reason I have not given it five stars is that the marketing of the book leads one to think that it is great for absolute beginners. The ideal audience for this book is someone who has dabbled with Javascript and now wants to take a more professional and structured approach.
Lives up to its subtitle... (3/3 people found this helpful)
The books subtitle - Everything you need to learn JavaScript from scratch - is correct. Though JS is a difficult subject, made all the more confusing by lots of bad, incorrect and incompatible code around the internet, this book manages to cut through the clutter and teach best practices, stanards, cross-browser compatability, and accessibility.
If you're been copying & pasting scripts for use on your website, this book will give you a very solid foundation in being able to understand that you're using and being able to modify and troubleshoot the scripts.
This book covers all the basics, from JavaScripts role in the three layers of the web, to the basics of statements, comments, variables and different variable types, conditions and loops, functions, and objects. Testing and debugging are covered in greath depth in Chapter 6, which really helps put things into context for beginners.
Each chapter also discusses the various JavaScript libraries, such as Dojo, and how they can be applied for various uses.
Even though I began the book with very little JS knowledge, the friendly and informal tone of the author, and the step by step guidance, really made sense to me. Overall, I would think this book will appeal to newbie JavaScript programmers. I highly recommend it.
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