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Title: Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 21 Days by Jonathan A. Watt, Andrew H. Watt, Jinjer Simon, Jonathan A Watt ISBN: 0-672-32297-8 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 29 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for beginners, too slow for experienced programmers
Comment: I found this book very useful, and I was able to learn JavaScript from it, although I didn't follow the book's tutorials sequentially.
The most important thing to note is that this book is not really suitable for an experienced programmer who wants to add JavaScript to the list of programming languages that he/she knows. If you already know several other programming languages then you'll find the pace of this book much too slow. There are too many simple examples and too much discussion of basic programming principles.
For a beginning programmer these many examples and down-to-earth discussions are great. The authors assume that the reader has no knowledge of programming at all, which is fine if the reader is new to programming.
A couple of the especially useful things I found in this book were an example showing a clever way of using the onClick event for an "a" tag, and information about where to find the Microsoft script debugger.
On the other hand, I did find a few minor errors. And on page 20 a CD-ROM is mentioned, but in fact no CD-ROM accompanies the book. Instead, as explained on page 5, the sample files from the book are available on the Internet.
So if you're new to programming then this is a good book for you, but if you're an experienced programmer then you should find something else.
Rennie Petersen
Rating: 3
Summary: Good But.....
Comment: I thought the book was good but was a little bit too wordy. I didn't see why there needed to be so many examples on everything; but I guess that's good if you are new to programming. This book wasn't exactly what I was looking for but served its purpose. It was much better then SAMS "Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours" which had errors in it. Although I didn't care for the books wordiness it was filled with useful information and I did enjoy the chapter of SVG.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great beginners book!
Comment: This is the book that I used to teach myself Javascript.
I was able to breeze through it in 3 days, not 21 days and I would recommend the Teach Yourself series by SAMS to anyone who wants to learn a computer language.
Later when you need a big reference book, I would recommend "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" by O'Reilly.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours by Michael Moncur ISBN: 0672324067 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days by Scott Mitchell, James Atkinson ISBN: 0672318636 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 09 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition) by Laura Lemay, Richard Colburn, Robert Kiesling ISBN: 0672320355 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 31 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition (3rd Edition) by Laura Lemay, Rogers Cadenhead ISBN: 0672324555 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and XHTML in 21 Days, Third Edition (3rd Edition) by Laura Lemay, Denise Tyler, Rafe Colburn ISBN: 0672320770 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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