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Summary: Just starting JavaScript? This book is it.
Review: As a beginner in the world of JavaScrit, I was very apprehensive at learning a new computer language at my old age. To my delight Mr. Thau takes the beginner on a spellbound path to no return. Once you start reading the book you just want to get more involved! And quickly you will realize that with the hands on approach it is not that hard after all ! Great book for a beginner. I would recommend to anyone interested in making their dead HTML comes alive.
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Summary: A practical, surprisingly easy guide to use
Review: Book of Javascript is more than a 'cookbook' of scripts for a web site; it tells how to effectively use JavaScript to add interactivity, animation and other fancy moves to a standard web page. Examples of how various scripts work teach readers how to use frames, cookies and others to create customized sites. A practical, surprisingly easy guide to use, even for relative novices.
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Summary: Haven't read the book yet, but I took Dave Thau's class
Review: Dave Thau is amazing. I am dying to get this book. I took his JavaScript class in San Francisco and he managed to make the subject not only easy to learn, but fun! I had some previous programming classes and came away confused and frustrated at the inability of my instructors to convey the basic principles involved. In Dave's class I learned not only all the basic principles of programming, but how to execute them successfully using JavaScript. Invaluable. If this book is anything like his classes you can't pass it up.
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Summary: I bought 4 books until I found this one!
Review: Definitly the best JavaScript book around. If you want to learn and understand in a fun way, this is the book. Real life examples actually give you something to use. One of the best books I've read (technical). It's not THE reference book but a great tutorial!
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Summary: A good instructional and reference book
Review: Even though JavaScript is not a new technology (in term of the Internet world), it is often difficult to find well written books that are easy to understand about the subject. Those that are well written, good instructional books, tend to be poor reference books (with the ability to find answers without reading the whole chapter0. "The Book of JavaScript..." does a good job at both. If you need the instructional "how-to" type of book you will find this book is excellent. Once you feel comfortable with JavaScript you will be able to use this book as a reference. This book does a good job at combining both worlds. There are better books for instruction and better books for reference (JavaScript: The Definitive Guide O'Reilly Press), but as an all-in-one book this succeeds where others haven't.
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Summary: At kast, it makes sense!
Review: Finally a book about Javascript that does not try to double as a central tunnel support for the underground train system. Light enough to be carried by an average person, funny enough to merit re-reading and above all PRACTICAL in its approach. I recommend it as a good way to get quickly into Javascript.
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Summary: Excellent...but lacks something
Review: GREAT book...Very good layout...Lacking some information that you gotta figure out on your own (...)? Nah, it's a GREAT book...Take my word for this, just think about it and be logical about it and try it --> For any book, especially those advanced and professional books, it's better to spend reading, practing, and applying one concept for a whole week until you can do a task even while dreaming, rather than finishing a chapter in one hour and moving on, but if you try to accomplish a task, you would have to go back and seem like you're doing read, enter-in-mind, write, exit-from-mind.
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Summary: Javascript Lookout!
Review: Here it is 2:30am, I have to work tomorrow but I can't put this book down! After the 3rd chapter I'm writing simple little scripts and having a blast. Sure it's simple little coding so far but I'm learning the basics and now know what variables, strings and functions are. Being a programming NEWBIE I'm already hooked and can't wait until I get off work and can get back into this book and code some more! About 2 hours ago I had a vague idea of what Javascript was and now I'm writing it and understanding it. Thanks Thau!
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Summary: One of My Friends!
Review: How helpful is this book?
When I was beginning to tackle the extremely picky Cookie function techniques in the JavaScript core language I needed to understand them enough to be able to support a shopping cart that can carry large amounts of data. This book has the best Cookie functions examples that I could find, not only are the functions inspirational, but they are also very easy to understand. I am also glad that Thau decided to leave out most of the HTML (the larger examples do include HTML) and just show the JavaScript, the reason that this is helpful is that in JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (Which is the most in depth JavaScript Core language tutorial, which I also recommend if you want to be an expert at client side JavaScript) has the HTML included which is good in some cases, so that you can understand how to implement the examples into your pages, but in a situation where I want to understand how to talk to the document.cookie all the HTML makes it very hard to understand.
Reference - quality / speed:
The reference in this book doesn't touch that of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide in order to find something you must first go to the index and find the page number. In the Definitive Guide you just go to the appendix and the top of the page has what you want in alphabetical order. The speed to look something up is too slow. If you want the best reference in most common client side programming get the DHTML Definitive Reference, this one has everything and is organized perfectly.
Core Language:
Sorry beginners, but you won't be experts at JavaScript from this book alone. This is only a beginning there is a lot more to this simple language than this small book, but the examples are some of the easiest to learn from (I love that fact and you will also).
Beginners - Must have.
Experts - Consider this book in time of small misunderstandings.
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Summary: Just another cut and paste book
Review: How many times must I be fooled by online reviews and buy another useless javascript book? I already sold this thing on ebay , couldn't stand the sight of it after the first three chapters. Just a bunch of recycled material from the WebMonkey site. trust me on this one, Don't do it! stick to the free tutorials on the web, 10x better, and, well, free!
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