Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
On March - 31 - 20105 COMMENTS
- ISBN13: 9780470227800
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This eagerly anticipated update to the breakout book on JavaScript offers you an in-depth look at the numerous advances to the techniques and technology of the JavaScript language. You’ll see why JavaScript’s popularity continues to grow while you delve through topics such as debugging tools in Microsoft Visual Studio, FireBug, and Drosera; client-side data storage with cookies, DOM storage, and client-side databases; HTML 5, ECMAScript 3.1, the Selectors API; a… More >>
Classic Wiley style: boring and heavy reading and not good “Try it Out” or “How it Works” sections. Bad choice from Wrox as professional guides.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m reinstating my much maligned one star review wherein I pointed out that this book’s first glaring mistake was on page 12. On which page the author states that comments in Javascript are just like Perl, whereas in Perl comments start with ‘#’, actually quite unlike Javascript.
Well the author does it again in Chapter 11, and now my complaint pertains specifically to code. Specifically the FormUtil.tabForward() method. You may as well just get your code from some lame online script repository, because it contains the same sort of error.
The whole point of a “tabForward” method is to assist users who are used to using keyboard shortcuts. As a user of keyboard shortcuts, I don’t expect code that tabs forward automatically to stop me from using another keyboard shortcut.
But the author’s code, as downloaded from the publisher’s site, does just that. If you have been automatically tabbed forward to a field, you can no longer use shift+tab to go back to the field from whence you came: it will just automatically tab you forward again.
By the way, I also think it’s disingenuous of the author to innocently refer to a third party library, zInherit, in chapter 4, without explicitly informing the reader that it is actually his own code (the domain is the same as noted in “About the Author” on page v). Putting two and two together however, I certainly would not trust his third party library considering his broken code and other blatant mistakes elsewhere in the book.
I am truly sorry I wasted my money on this book. And I’m astounded by others who apparently had such high expectations for this book that they cannot be objective about it. I don’t know about anybody else, but I will to continue to wait for a Javascript book other than Flanagan’s “Definitive Guide” that is worth buying, or perhaps just the next edition of same.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was lucky enough to be one of the few ‘in on the ground’ with this book, and watched it’s development with interest. The finished result is nothing less than one of the best thought out, put together, and decisive books on Javascript that I have ever read. I now know of several people that use this book on an almost daily basis, and these range from a beginner to an advanced coder. I have used the book several times myself and have found it to be clear, detailed and informative with it’s content, and professional but still easy to understand with it’s delivery.
Buy it, buy it now, you will NOT REGRET it.
Well done Nicholas.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have been doing programming for many years. I have done a lot of Java/J2EE and iSeries programming. Recently I was given a project which needed JavaScript to be implemented. The Nicholas’ book on JavaScript allowed me to learn the language in a week up to the point to be able to produce a production level code. Excellent work!
Rating: 5 / 5
It’s tough as a javascript programmer. Besides the loosely type and debugging, there are many differences between browsers. you must be familiar with BOM(browser object model), DOM(document object model) and HTML,then could become a just good(not well, not enough) programmer of javascript. There are many things needs to know……..
This book is for the programmer with some background of the above, besides some programming experience of other OO language. If only the other OO language, you may be confused about many codes digests which mix different BOM, standard DOM, and HTML without annotation.
There are many new skill and information about the upgraded javascript and the comparative implement of different browsers for a javascript programmer. It’s great. Highly commend!
Rating: 5 / 5