JavaScript for Programmers [Paperback]

Paul J. Deitel (Author), Harvey M. Deitel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0137001312 | ISBN-13: 978-0137001316 | Publication Date: March 26, 2009 | Edition: 1

PRACTICAL, EXAMPLE-RICH COVERAGE OF:

• XHTML®
• CSS®
• JavaScript™: Control Statements,
• Functions, Arrays, Objects
• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
• XHTML DOM®: Objects and Collections
• JavaScript Event-Driven Programming
• XML® and RSS
• XML DOM
• Rich Internet Applications
• Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)
• XMLHttpRequest
• Dojo Toolkit
• Consuming Web Services
• And more…

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The practicing programmer’s Deitel^® guide to XHTML^®, CSS^®, JavaScript^™, XML^® and Ajax RIA development.

 

This book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching the client side of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) development. The book presents concepts in the context of 100+ fully tested programs (6,000+ lines of code), complete with syntax shading, detailed descriptions and sample outputs. The book features over 150 tips that will help you build robust client-side web applications.

 

Start with an introduction to Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML®) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS®), then rapidly move on to the details of JavaScript™ programming. Finish with more advanced client-side development technologies including XHTML’s Document Object Model (DOM®), Extensible Markup Language (XML®), XML’s DOM, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). When you’re finished, you’ll have everything you need to build the client side of Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The book culminates with several substantial Ajax-enabled RIAs, including a book cover viewer (JavaScript/DOM), an address book (Ajax/consuming web services) and a calendar application (Ajax/Dojo/consuming web services).

 

TheDeitel® Developer Seriesis designed for professional programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, Java™, web services, Internet and web development and more.          

 

Pre-Publication Reviewer Testimonials

 

“One of the best introductions to JavaScript.”—Raymond Wisman, Indiana University Southeast

 

“Cements the browser as a first-class development platform.”—Johnvey Hwang, Splunk, Inc.

 

“Excellent for learning to develop standards-compliant web applications.”—Paul Vencill, MITRE, Inc.

 

“The CSS chapter is compact, concise and full of useful info!”—Billy B. L. Lim, Illinois State University

 

“A good introduction to the DOM; doesn’t trip over cross-browser incompatibilities.”—Eric Lawrence, Microsoft

 

“Exceptionally clear Ajax tutorial; best I’ve reviewed! Great solutions for the very cool type-ahead and edit-in-place Ajax features. ‘Libraries to Help Eliminate Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues’ is fantastic. This book and your websites will be often-visited resources (if not best practices in themselves).”—John Peterson, Insync and V.I.O. Inc.

 

“I wish I’d had this when I was learning to program.”—Joe Kromer, New Perspective

 

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About the Author

Paul J. Deitel and Dr. Harvey M. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages authoring, corporate training, and Internet business development organization. The Deitels have written many international best-selling programming languages books that millions of people worldwide have used to master Internet and web programming, C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, Perl and Python. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (March 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137001312
• ISBN-13: 978-0137001316
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good Beginner JavaScript Book, September 4, 2009

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Robin Levin "Rob" (Fremont, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JavaScript for Programmers (Paperback)

Here's my breakdown:

1. This book definitely does spend time on other closely related things like XHTML, CSS, etc. That may or may not bother you. These are definitely a prereq to using JS so if you haven't really cut your teeth on them you may like this. I'm pretty good with all of these but there were a couple of things I realized I had overlooked so it worked out well for me.

2. You may not like their coding style if you're picky about things like DRY(don't repeat yourself), but hey, it's meant to be pedantic code and so you really should be thankful that it's easy to understand. Actually, the examples in the DOM chapter were quite good IMO.

3. Very readable and easy to comprehend if you have programming experience. That being said, it says "for Programmers". I'd say it's a little more for beginners.

4. I don't remember seeing anything on things like Object.prototype, .call, .apply, etc. So it's definitely NOT an advanced JS book. If you don't mind having a couple of different books, that still may not bother you as you could supplement with some sort of "definitive" tome. I have to say this one did bother me a bit and I thought at least one more advanced JavaScript chapter would have been good.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Book has potential but needs a better focus..., July 29, 2009

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Matthew Greenberg (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JavaScript for Programmers (Paperback)

I have other programming books from these authors and that is why I bought this title. I have looked at other Javascript titles and was not impressed. The book is okay but needs to be reorganized. The following are the changes that it needs...

1) The book is short for tech books so it needs to focus on the important Javascript topics and not HTML format...

The book seems to spend a lot of time with XML and CSS, while important, there are other books that go into the detail and they do not spend enough time explaining and giving examples of the other topics critical to the subject.

2) In more detail they need to talk about code elements and the advanced features witch include built in, objects and DOM (there might be a few things that I may be missing...

I am disappointed since these authors have written very good books about the web, JAVA and PERL which are part of my book collection...

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a joke!, December 17, 2009

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Michael Morris "AZ Banjo" (Glendale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JavaScript for Programmers (Kindle Edition)

This book is promoted as a book for programmers. It starts at a HS level introduction and takes several chapters to get to anything resembling programming. It passes history and justification of the language along the way. I skipped all of that but then the writing style is obviously for someone who has absolutely no clue about programming. I have been a software engineer for more than 20 years and have learned many different languages, but have not seen a book this poorly written for a long time. If you know any programming at all, look for another book.