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Learn Advanced Javascript Programming

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It's a bit heavy for beginner but would be a good book for those readers searching for a second book on javascript. Its in-depth approach is definitely a plus for those who intend to advance their skills in javascript. Recommended for those who have basic javasript experience.

This was my first book on JavaScript and found it to be a major help. As other people noted, it was not referenced well. Also, too many examples contained incomplete information that "would be explained later." Chapter 7, Operators, was poorly done. Written primarily for Netscape browser preferences.

This was my first book on JavaScript and learned much from it but quickly found that it lacked depth and a good language reference. It is strickly for Netscape and gives very little cross platform info on IE3 or 4. I effectively learned JavaScript but fell short when trying to do more advanced stuff. It is not and advanced book as it claims. More tutorial for beginners than anything else. Goodman's 3rd edition of the JavaScript Bible has turned out to be a much better book. It has a good quick tutorial and excellent reference and cross reference.

This was a fairly good beginners to intermediate book. However, a lot of the material was directly copied from the Netscape Developer's Web page, so you don't need to waste your money buying this book. It is primarily for Netscape, and doesn't give much coverage on IE. Overall a good reference book, but not really worth the money.

I thought the book was great in its layout and concept for its intended audience, experienced programmers and Web developers. This book provides many guidelines and a lot of insight into describing Javascript and its interaction with web pages. The book is especially helpful in helping to determine behavior of form field-level validation and figuring out how to reference the umpteen million objects and values that can exist in a web page. The book was written with the expectation of the reader having a moderate background in HTML page creation or general programming like Basic, Pascal, or any other language. I don't believe that the book should be used as a Javascript primer, but if one should choose to use it as such, then one should keep some kind of HTML reference book to explain many of the these concepts. I would recommend this book to anyone experienced with programming who needs to understand and program Javascript.