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Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional
This is the most up-to-date book on JavaScript available, covering current standards, techniques, and practices. It provides all you need to know to hit the ground running, without making you trawl through hundreds of pages of syntax. The book contains multiple chapters on Ajax and DOM Scripting, which are two of the hottest web development and design tools available today. Using a pragmatic and thorough approach, the book ensures that even the most novice JavaScript programmers will become familiar and comfortable using the tools presented.
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536 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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August 13, 2014
I finished reading this book about a month or so ago. I have waited to review it up until now because I was waiting on receiving a book that actually does what this "claims" to. That is, teach JavaScript.
I'll start off by saying that I had high hopes for this reference book. Almost every single one was bashed against the rocks of my complete and utter disappointment. To say that this book has issues would be an extreme understatement. It's an abysmal attempt at best and at its worst, a seemingly unedited, non-uniformly formatted, eye straining, sleep inducing jumble.
I've read quite a few programming books and I have to say this is the worst formatting I have ever seen. Actually implying that it's formatted is giving this book too much credit. Code formatting is inconsistent within single chapters, sometimes even between paragraphs. It made me second guess myself constantly, as well as having to look more carefully for mistakes and typos(more on that in a bit).
Never have I seen a programming reference book, use similar fonts for coding passages, as it does for instructional paragraphs. Not to mention that every font in the book is in the same color, black. There are a few instances of bold text interspersed through-out but I have to be admit, they might as well have been printer errors, for all they've helped me.
This leads me to the real problem with the book. It has way too many typos for a programming reference. Absolutely riddled with missing or incorrect characters. Mixed with the shoddy formatting, this book is not unreadable, its unfathomable. I wouldn't say shoot the editor but at the very least he should get the rack.
Avoid this book, please.
I just received and so far reading it has been a pleasure.
I'll start off by saying that I had high hopes for this reference book. Almost every single one was bashed against the rocks of my complete and utter disappointment. To say that this book has issues would be an extreme understatement. It's an abysmal attempt at best and at its worst, a seemingly unedited, non-uniformly formatted, eye straining, sleep inducing jumble.
I've read quite a few programming books and I have to say this is the worst formatting I have ever seen. Actually implying that it's formatted is giving this book too much credit. Code formatting is inconsistent within single chapters, sometimes even between paragraphs. It made me second guess myself constantly, as well as having to look more carefully for mistakes and typos(more on that in a bit).
Never have I seen a programming reference book, use similar fonts for coding passages, as it does for instructional paragraphs. Not to mention that every font in the book is in the same color, black. There are a few instances of bold text interspersed through-out but I have to be admit, they might as well have been printer errors, for all they've helped me.
This leads me to the real problem with the book. It has way too many typos for a programming reference. Absolutely riddled with missing or incorrect characters. Mixed with the shoddy formatting, this book is not unreadable, its unfathomable. I wouldn't say shoot the editor but at the very least he should get the rack.
Avoid this book, please.
I just received and so far reading it has been a pleasure.
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