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JavaScript Index - JavaScript Book :
Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)
by Michael G. Moncur Paperback: 400 pages Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 9.16 x 7.42 Publisher: Sams ISBN: 0672320258; 2nd edition (October 9, 2000) Provides 24 one-hour lessons, plus quizes and exercises, on programming with JavaScript, covering creating a simple script, using variables and functions, advanced JavaScript features, working with Web pages, scripting advanced Web features, and finding and handling errors. Includes a list of useful Web sites, and a glossary. Moncur is a networking and Internet consultant. Book Info: Twenty-four lessons to becoming proficient in JavaScript programming languages. Teaches skills such as building dynamic Web pages, creating rollovers and animations, creating shopping cart scripts, and debugging applications. Previous edition not cited. From the Author: When JavaScript was first introduced, it made Web pages interactive - and got me excited about programming for the first time in years. It's a fun language to learn and use, whether you're an experienced programmer or a beginner. I wrote this book to try to pass on some of this excitement. This book starts with the basics, and ends with games and applications that take full advantage of JavaScript. If you create Web pages, this book will help you add fun and functionality with JavaScript. --Michael Moncur From the Back Cover: JavaScript is one of the easiest, most straightforward ways to enhance a Web site with interactivity. Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours serves as an easy-to-understand tutorial on both scripting basics and JavaScript itself. The book is written in a clear and personable style with an extensive use of practical, complete examples. The Third Edition of Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours includes material on the latest developments in JavaScript and Web scripting. Readers will learn how to use JavaScript to enhance Web pages with interactive forms, objects, and cookies. They will also discover how to use JavaScript to work with games, animation, and multimedia. About the Author: Michael Moncur is a freelance Webmaster and author, and has worked with the Internet since Gopher was still a cool thing. He wrote Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours, and has also written several bestselling books about networking and the CNE and MCSE programs. In his spare time (about an hour per year) he composes music and builds model rockets. Customer Reviews The Right Stuff, Clearly Explained, October 17, 2001 Reviewer: Reader from Reston, VA United States Some people are saying this book TOO heavy for new programmers while others are saying it is NOT ENOUGH technical information. As someone who relies on technical books for the purpose of teaching myself new technologies, I should point out that most people have to buy more than one book to quickly master a new programming language. And I definitely recommend this book for persons new to javascript only or new to programming in general. After this book, I had that really good feeling I get when a good base has been established in a new area of technical knowledge -- when the first stuff that came in got laid down right, and then, everything that comes in after that builds easily on top of that good foundation. I am remembering things I read the first time, and everything else I have been learning since sticks, too. There are a lot of browser variation and version differences issues in javascript, and that is a problem. This author copes with it well, which is tough in the chaotic world of fast-changing www standards. I have the last version of book and the Javascript Bible, Gold (essential desk reference with 1400 pages of excruciating detail), and I definitely recommend buying THIS book as the first one. To those who wanted to find MORE information in an introductory language text, I would say that if you have the ability to read a detailed programming language book, remember all its info and methods, and start programming in the same amount of time that I can read this book and start programming while using the longer, detailed book as my desk reference, by all means do so and enjoy your photographic memory. To new programmers who wanted an EASIER book, it doesn't get clearer this, or at a sharper level of just-enough detail. Not to discourage people from speaking up, but readers should remember that a "review" is supposed to be a sharing of informed of opinions -- actually, advice -- to help other people make purchasing decisions. Readers should probably not use this review system as a message board, a readership chat, or otherwise to discuss their own issues under the impression that having any opinion at all, and posting it as a "review" helps anyone. For example, for this book, one reviewer states that the author explains the "&&" operator and then - amazingly - expects the reader to remember it later in the book. It sounds like that reader is looking for a book that performs the added function of making him pay attention, like a book that repeats and reinforces (There are books like that out there. But the handholding you want would make this book too long and too cluttered for an "in 24 hours" title). There is another "reviewer" who stated that he wanted more examples with more context, not just code snippets. Hello, do you know there are about a million downloadble javascript scripts on the WWW, in archives, articles, javascript websites, and so on, including embedded in almost every commercial web page you visit, like this one (for which you can "view source")? Almost every programming book's review section is full of people saying "not enough", while others say "this is too hard", and people who say "there are typos in the examples." None of these reviews are helping others, unless the review is an informed one and states exactly how and why that opinion is meaningful. I'm learning how to read into the newbie-bad-book posts to find the good books, and I feel bad for this very good author that he has been jumped on like this. I think that this introductory javascript book has attracted a greater proportion of liberal-arts web-developer wanna-bes, who have posted these inappropriate reviews on a great introductory programming book. Any programming book would be too hard or not right somehow. No, it won't be a fun read, it won't be easy, and you do have to remember symbols and other facts you read, such as the "&&" operator. There's a reason why the technical studies students were missing campus football parties so they could pass their classes while you were getting trashed and why they are making a lot of money now. I agree with the computer science student. I have read programming books for introductory and advanced college courses and for teaching myself new things. This author is exceptionally good at writing an introductory programming text at a great level of detail with just the right amount of stuff explained very clearly. I am actually waiting, which I hardly ever do, for this author's DHTML book due out in December, for more info about javascript and advanced web page production. All the basics presented in a set of clear examples, October 20, 2000 Reviewer: Charles Ashbacher from Hiawatha, Iowa(ashbacher@ashbacher.com) If someone asks me where to start when they want to learn programming, my standard response is to tell them to learn HTML. If they also want to be able to make money from their knowledge, my response is to tell them to learn HTML and JavaScript. HTML is certainly the most widely used "programming language" in the world today, and JavaScript cannot be far behind. Furthermore, neither requires a great deal of overhead in the form of costly compilers or interpreters. However, finding material that makes learning them easy and enjoyable is difficult. This book satisfies both criteria at about an eight on a scale of one to ten where ten is the best. The examples are clear, very precise in their coverage and in combination cover the features of the language that you need to know. Furthermore, the coverage includes JavaScript 1.5, which does have some significant new features. While reading this book for review, I learned a few things that I had not been aware of. If you are interested in learning JavaScript, this book will help you do that, independent of whether you are experienced in programming. I would have no reservations recommending it to anyone who falls into either category. Good starters manual, May 16, 2002 Reviewer: m_hanlon from Dublin, Ireland Great book for beginners - certainly no complaints as to the examples offered. Can be misinterpretted though as too much of a reference manual, when in fact, it is missing a number of important details. No technical errors as far as I know. Nice book, February 11, 2002 Reviewer: cheddercaveman from Naperville, IL United States This was a good book for me. I had some prior knowledge of Javascript and this really brought it all together for me and cleared up any confusion that I had. It also has a decent reference in one of the appendices in the back of the book. Helped me to learn DHTML a little bit too. |
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