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JavaScript Index - JavaScript Book :
JavaScript 1.5 by Example
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie Kingsley-Hughes Paperback: 312 pages Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x 9.05 x 7.32 Publisher: Que ISBN: 0789724995; 1st edition (January 11, 2001) Explains the fundamentals of the JavaScript, from basic syntax to advanced concepts including Dynamic HTML. JavaScript, the programming language allowing increased interactivity between users and web pages, is explained through examples, with screen shots illustrating many of the techniques described. Coverage includes integrating JavaScript into HTML; using JavaScript Objects for efficient programming; and manipulating the Objects Model to create DHTML effects. For beginning to intermediate users.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR From the Back Cover: JavaScript 1.5 by Example starts with a taste of JavaScript – what it is, what it's for, and what readers need to get started. The book then explains how to add JavaScript to existing HTML pages, leading readers into the fundamentals of the language including JavaScript syntax, notation and conventions, communicating with users via input and output, manipulating variables and data, logic statements in JavaScript, and object programming with JavaScript. The book progresses to an explanation of JavaScript's role in Dynamic HTML, and how that power can be exploited to create animation, navigation, forms processing and more. About the Author: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and Kathie Kingsley-Hughes have been using and abusing JavaScript ever since Netscape Navigator 2.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0. They are writers, trainers and speakers in the fields of Internet Development and Microsoft Office integration. In addition, Adrian is technical director of two UK-based companies; Kathie is Managing Director of a UK development company and partner in a UK-based design firm. They previously contributed to Wrox Press's VBScript Programmer's Reference and XML Applications and have written training manuals for online teaching at ZDU and SmartPlanet, in topics such as VBScript and cascading style sheets. Customer Reviews Not for the beginner!, March 13, 2002 Reviewer: Mark Stafford from Phx, AZ I was sent this book by my book club by mistake (waited too long and had to buy it.)... I started to read it and realized that it didn't start at the basics like I needed. HOWEVER after going through the wrox book "Begining JavaScript" and then picking this book back up I did learn a few different aspects of JavaScript that were not covered by the Wrox book. The book does bring to light a few different perspectives that might help somebody with certain programming needs, but that's about it. I am not knocking this book it does have it's place. Final thought is figure out what you need and if other books don't deliver this one might :) I don't really know, but I don't think so., August 31, 2001 Reviewer: Alexander von Heim from vanderheim I never really finished this book, I guess it tells you the basic things, I went from the cover to the end, and it really didn't help me out. I got it to learn specific things, new to "JavaScript 1.5" but it didn't tell me either. IE: scrollbar colors, and windows and yada yada. I don't know if it covers all it should, thanks. But if you're a beginner it's okay, I think. *alex Very Disappointed, July 31, 2001 Reviewer: Beverley Eyre from El Cerrito, CA USA I bought this book to find out how to print variables from a javascript to a web page. Sounds simple, right? Sounds like page #1, right? Not only does this book never tell you how to do this simple and very basic operation, it pretends that no such thing could ever be expected from a book on scripting! It tells you how to print variable to popup widows and that's it. It pretends that this is all the output any person using JavaScript would or should ever need. They never address output to the web page itself. Never even mention it. Not once. That's just what I need to do with my arrays, print them to a popup alert window. I would have appreciated at least a small message as to *why* they don't tell you about such simple and basic stuff. This book is really pretty bad. I suggest you try another one on JavaScripting. It's bad, and it's disingenous. Best Book On JavaScript I've Ever Read, June 25, 2001 Reviewer: Louis Griffith from Bermuda This is the best book on JavaScript I've ever read. Of course, it's the only book I've read, but that's not the point. Basically this book will help the beginner to grasp the fundamentals of the language. The wording is simple and there are (as the title suggests) plenty of examples to follow (you can download all source code from the Publisher's website). It is definitely not for the intermediate to the advance JavaScript writer. It is beautifully written to hold your hand through the very basics of the language. After completing each chapter, you should have a firm understanding of the concepts. Then, when you have completed this book, if you become a happy Java fan, I highly recommend buying an advanced JavaScript book to pick up where this one finished. |
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