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Summary: Nice job!
Review: I've tried several tutorials on Javascript, and Wilton's is by far the best. If you know a little HTML, you can learn Javascript. If you know a LOT of HTML, his instructions directed at the new web designer are easy to skip over. Wilton very quickly moves the student into actual production of working Javascript pages, and weaves explanations throughout the examples so smoothly you don't realize how much you've learned until you look at your work. The real-world examples, which include online quizzes and a script for checking the browser version, are also highly motivating (versus books that push novices through endless versions of "hello world"). About the only thing I would add in a future edition is a troubleshooting chapter (the first example, of all things, wouldn't load for me initially, and I'm still not sure how I fixed it), and my only quibble is that the first time Javascript code is cited, the reader isn't immediately directed to Appendix C for a brief discussion of other tags. However, these are very minor critiques of a well-written, well-organized book that makes Javascript attainable--and fun to learn.
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Summary: No Less Than Superb
Review: This book is no less than superb as a text providing foundational principles in JavaScript and web programming, starting from elementary principles of programming and ending with a brief introduction to ASP and back-end Access databases. It is not a quick fix book as other books on JavaScript. If you work through this book, and study the code, as well as code on the web and other JavaScript books like the Definitive Guide and the JavaScript Bible, you will have a working knowledge of the principles so that you can apply them to most any situation.I have personally applied specific code provided in this book to my web sites which I have written, and have found them to be quite useful, unlike certain other reviewers who have not worked through the book as I have for the last 6 months. I have also personally contacted Paul on several occasions, and he has helped me work through some principles to the next level, so that I could get my projects working properly. He is a very helpful fellow. Even if you buy the Visual Quickstart Guide to get up to speed on a project, the Beginning JavaScript book by Paul is worth working through to gain the understanding of the principles you need to build a solid working knowledge, far beyond cutting and pasting snippets of code to get you by.
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Summary: Good for beginners
Review: I chose this book as my introduction to JavaScript and am quite pleased with it. It pretty well covers all the basics and is worth a straight-through read. The author builds several examples, expanding on them as the book progresses. Each time a large block of code is presented. If you can't figure out what is going on just by inspecting the code, each section is followed by a detailed 'how it works' explanation.
The book was thorough enough to give me a good understanding of just about everything I needed to know to begin developing a rather complex client-side application. I had to go to a more in-depth reference to learn how to assign an event handler with parameters to a control that was being generated by code, but that was about all that I did not find covered in this book.
I would definitely recommend this book to Javascript beginners, particularly those who are willing to read steadily through it.
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Summary: Good book and a easy read!
Review: This book is for anyone who wants to learn JavaScript. JavaScript is the language of the Web and gives you the ability to enhance your web site by creating interactive, dynamic and personalized pages. The focus in this book is on client-side scripting NOT the server side. The book assumes no prior knowledge of programming languages, and teaches you all the fundamental concepts that you need as you progress. After covering the core JavaScript language, you'll move on to learn about more advanced techniques, including Dynamic HTML, using cookies, debugging techniques, and server-side scripting with ASP. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the art of using JavaScript to create dynamic and professional-looking web pages. Even if you haven't programmed before, this text can give you the tools you need to bring your Web pages to life. FinancialNeeds.com
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Summary: Book confuses the issues and doesn't get to the syntax
Review: Instead of defining all the attributes of say "Request.QueryString" into differenct contexts like Javascript <var> and HTML <input value=>, he muddles around with <Server-Side Scripting with ASP> probably the lamest web application environment around.
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Summary: Beware: Not the Second Edition!
Review: I already have a copy of the year 2000 edition of this book and it was a great book. I found this 2003 book and I ordered one because I thought it was the second edition. But I WAS WRONG. It is exactly the same as the 2000 edition, covering only NN up to ver 4 and IE up to 5. I had to return it at my own expense. If you already have a first edition, DON'T BUY this book. You would end up with two copies of the same book. If you don't have a first edition, I would still recommend JavaScript Bible by Danny Goodman or O'Reilly's JavaScript than this book. They are more up-to-date.
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Summary: old code but covered very well by this book
Review: I have been using javascript on and off and for a while I
hav stayed away from it due to poor material and bad
presentation on some very bad books.
This book is exception for all those who have lost confidence
and compliments well with my later .net collection of books.
well done.
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Summary: Very thorough, but needs to get to the point
Review: I bought this book as an amateur web site author trying to learn some new tricks for my site, and hoping to ease my way into some more serious web authoring. The good news is that this book is incredibly thorough and detailed. The bad news is that he takes you through it all at his pace, instead of helping you get what you want out of it. Put another way, I found this book very user-unfriendly. First of all, I wanted to learn a couple really basic things for my site -- like how to make a pop-up window -- and then move onto more advanced things. But instead of a TOC that reads something like, "How to make a pop-up window" he uses all JavaScript lingo that means nothing to a beginner. The index is the same way, and so I'm forced to go through this book at HIS pace -- trying to learn a whole bunch of stuff I have no interest in --instead of my own, and still don't know how to do the few things I wanted to learn first. On the good side, this book is extraordinarily thorough and detailed, and he does an excellent job of explaining how the scripts work. However, overall I feel that it will be far more useful as a reference than as a learning book, and now I may have to shell out another $40 for a book because I'm not sure I can suffer through another chapter of this one.
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Summary: Best if kept on your Desk at all times
Review: You won't be ashamed to have this "Beginning" book on display on your desk. It's easy to use and very descriptive. Plenty of examples and they work! After buying this book I thought I would upgrade after a few weeks but I was wrong... I still use this manual.
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Summary: This book is a 9.5 on a 10 scale...!
Review: aha!,
After reading Beginning ASP 3.0 by Chriss Ullman and his gurus last summer . I wanted to know more about javascript. So i got this book. its grrreaat...! in true Wrox fashion the chapters are well laid out and very easy to grasp. the chapter on DHTML impressed me most. It presents you with drop-down Menus and hyper-links and other slick things that javascript can do that VisualBasicScript cannot do.. Javascript definitely is a must for any serious web developer and up 'n'coming webmaster. Dreamweaver MX has many of these javascript functionality in its click-drag-n-drop interface however it pays to know how the code also works.
One more Wrox phenomenon has dropped in my mail-box. Gooo- Wrox..!
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