Javascript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) [Paperback]

Ted Gesing (Author), Jeremy Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997 | ISBN-10: 020168814X | ISBN-13: 978-0201688146

JavaScript is designed to be used in conjunction with HTML. It goes further than the tagging functions performed by HTML. This guide to the JavaScript language is aimed at both users without a strong technical background, and experienced programmers, who may use it as a quick reference.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Peachpit's "Visual Quickstart" guides are real meat-and-potatoes works for beginners. Nothing fancy to be found here, just one annotated screen shot after another. An advanced user will finish one of these books during a two-hour airplane ride; beginners will need a day. But everyone will welcome the purely practical approach.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 020168814X
• ISBN-13: 978-0201688146
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,589,083 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This Javascript book disappoints me., October 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Javascript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

I'm ususally quite satisfied with the Visual Quickstart Guide Series because they are easy to read and most of the examples work. But this Javascript book disappoints me in a big way. Most of the examples do not work and it's frustrating to find out after typing them in. How can someone publish a book on a scripting language without testing whether the examples work? Plus, the book really doesn't do a good job on explaining the syntax so one can't learn how a script is constructed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars spend the extra dough, April 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Javascript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

save your money and by a book that doesn't just show you a couple of rollover and slideshow tricks. Seems to be thrown together in a hurry. Start on Chapter 3 or you'll fall asleep

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Second (and completely new) Edition is available!, January 15, 1998

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Dori Smith "Author, Programmer" (Healdsburg, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Javascript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

The Second Edition of "JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Visual QuickStart Guide" (ISBN: 0201696487) is now available from Amazon! Rewritten from page 1 by new authors (us), we wrote the new edition with web authors in mind--not programmers.

You'll find step-by-step instructions on how to create rollovers, deal with forms and frames, and an introduction to Dynamic HTML. There's even a chapter on debugging your scripts.

We invite you to check out the new edition.

Tom Negrino & Dori Smith