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JavaScript Index - JavaScript Book :
JavaScript - Comprehensive
by Gosselin, Don Gosselin Paperback: 720 pages Dimensions (in inches): 1.61 x 9.24 x 7.44 Publisher: Course Technology ISBN: 0619015551; 1st edition (June 14, 2000) Part of the new Web Warrior Series, a cutting edge Web development series dedicated to providing coverage of the latest in emerging Internet and Web technologies. This title provides comprehensive coverage of both client and server side JavaScript through extensive hands-on practice. Using this title, individuals learn to create interactive and dynamic user interfaces and integrate databases with Web sites. Book Info: (Thomson Learning) Designed to provide a guide for the beginning programmer to develop Web applications using the JavaScript programming language. Readers bring Web pages to life by building applications from the bottom up while incorporating interactive interfaces and databases into a Web site. Focuses on JavaScript 1.2. Customer Reviews This book (...), December 9, 2001 Reviewer: terrychai from Brookings, SD United States Do not buy this book!!! i read the whole book and did the exercises, there is a of mistakes in it, even in the excercises. the book looks pretty good when you read the preface, however, when you read the content of it, you will lose your way. do not expect you can learn much from it. JavaScript-Comprehensive by Gosselin, October 24, 2001 Reviewer: T J Stewart-Gordon from Dallas, TX USA JavaScript is not a language, but a collection of regional dialects of C++ or Java. Having said that, Mr. Gosselin's book is extremely difficult to understand. One never knows if he is using an illustrative name or calling a builtin function in his examples. His inability to explain just what a JavaScript object is puts him at a distinct disadvantage, which is not helped by the errors and ambiguities with which he attempts to advance his book. He also doesn't seem to have a clear idea of the relationship between HTML and JavaScript. There are many clearer authors and other comprehensive books. Readers would do well to leave this one on the shelf JavaScript Comprehensive, October 24, 2001 Reviewer: T J Stewart-Gordon from Dallas, TX USA The first thing one notices about "JavaScript-Comprehensive" is that neither the publisher, Course Technology, nor the author, Don Gosselin, could come up with any reason for the reader to part with (the money) for this book. With good reason. Having read more than 300 pages, I am convinced that Mr. Gosselin is as lost as I am when it comes to JavaScript. He seems to have no idea of what an object is, and is completely incapable of explaining how JavaScript and HTML meld into a single whole. On the otherhand, Professors Nakhimovsky and Myers, in "JavaScript Objects" have no trouble describing JavaScript objects as associative arrays, and pointing out that HTML governs how a web page looks and JavaScript controls how it behaves. Gosselin is at his most confusing when describing objects, functions and variables (is there anything else?). One never knows when he is using an illustrative name or a builtin function. The coinage of the term "instantiate" is annoying since he means "create an object" in some cases and "populate and existing object" in others. Mr. Gosselin may be able to explain how to use office applications, but he should leave JavaScript alone. |
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