JavaScript 1.5 by Example [Paperback]

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (Author), Kathie Kingsley-Hughes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 29, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0789724995 | ISBN-13: 978-0789724991 | Edition: 1

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.

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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.com, in topics such as VBScript and cascading style sheets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (January 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789724995
• ISBN-13: 978-0789724991
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,118,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My name is Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes. I am a technical consultant and author based in the UK. I have been around (and inside, on top of and beneath) computers for coming on two decades.
I live in the UK with my wife Kathie (who is also an author) and my fantastic children.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its ok for a begginer - except for the mistakes in the book, September 21, 2004

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dc - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaScript 1.5 by Example (Paperback)

I picked this book up having no experience with programming or javascript. I would like to state that the 3 star rating is based on only going through about a third of the book at this point.

For an absolute beginner, many of the concepts have been relatively easy to grasp up to this point and the book seems relatively straight forward and easy to read. All I seem to be making is pop up alert boxes, of course using different reasons to be making them. Being new to javascript...this could be the norm.

My main complaint about this book is all of the errors I have found in it, which consequently all seem to be in the examples. For a person as new to this as I am, these types of screw ups that could have been caught with a decent proofer, cause a lot of confusion. I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how the typeof value of x equaled what they showed, because it made absolutely no sense. Of course I finally reaslized that someone had inserted the wrong graphic and never noticed it.

I also went in circles in another area about the ternary conditional operator (?:) until I gave up and moved ahead and then realized that they had printed the incorrect answer to the equation.

Considering the number of proofing slips and I am only 1/3 through, I am going to be purchasing a different book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for a beginner like me!, July 20, 2003

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Patrick Vinas (Canton, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaScript 1.5 by Example (Paperback)

Hi
I got this book since i have read by example books before and loved them.I really enjoyed this book too.This book is for beginners that know basically what programming is but don't actually know any language.
The lessons are slow paced so you get it, with plenty of examples.The only complaint i might have is that the book has some typos in the code but i have figured them all out and corrected them, proving that i am learning(I am yet to see a programming book with no typos in the code examples.).
I highly recommend this book to a newbie that has read something like "Programming for dummies" as a primer.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for the beginner!, March 14, 2002

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Mark Stafford (Phx, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaScript 1.5 by Example (Paperback)

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 :)