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Javascript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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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.

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

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

This is a great intro to Javascript, but it is not for everyone. If you like to learn to program by reading books, or if you like those 1000 page volumes, then this is not the book for you. But if you learn by doing, and you want to start coding Javascript NOW, then get this book.

I was sorry to see some of the reviews that gave only 2's and 3's. This book is much better than that. If you are tired of reading the books with all the theory and want one with just examples of how to do particular things then this is the book for you. The examples that I tried in this book worked and it covered issues that I need to know like "How do you trap the value and text out of a combo box?". I would not say this book is for the beginner but there are dozens of useless Javascript books for that (ie Learn Javascript in a Week). Overall thought I think that this book is solid and you cant beat the price

I followed the examples, wrote the same codes but nothing worked. This book has many good examples related to graphic design but seems to be lacking details. I haven't read the second edition and I hope it's better than this edition.

I came to amazon.com tonight looking for a better book than JavaScript For The World Wide Web. The book's information is illogically presented, and the examples do not work. I can program, and even I find the book confusing. I pity any beginner. Thank goodness I got it from the library!

While one of the cheapest JavaScript books out, you get what you pay for: irritating fonts for script examples; spacing in scripts is not consistent; script example numbering falters. Yet the most irritating aspect is about 1/3 of the example scripts--up to Chapter 7, by which time I gave up on this book--don't work with Netscape 3.0+ as advertised. If learning through flawed examples--the error messages that pop up aren't exactly helpful for novices, either--is your chosen pedagogical approach, buy this; if you think instructional texts should be well edited to be largely devoid of errors, avoid this one. Peachpit Press has assured me by private email that corrections and expansions have been made in the second edition, which is actually cheaper--curious. The above statements are purely my own.

Often you want a quick review of a concept that you want to utilize JavaScript for without having to wade through some lone tome on the subject. One such reference that offers JavaScript for every occasion is Ted Gesing and Jeremy Schneider's "JavaScript For the World Wide Web" It uses script examples employing red colored text within the script for highlighting the exact topic under discussion. We rate it high for a quick reference to JavaScript covering everything from the object model (in an easy to understand model) to frames and array handling. If you deal with JavaScript regularly you will certainly find this 175 page well indexed reference guide, a handy book you will use over and over again. We at Cut and Paste JavaScript give it a 9. Buy it. JJB

I went to the bookstore to find a JavaScript book, and there were about two dozen there. I was looking around, and I see this book. I pick it up to humor myself, and I see that it's GOOD! It had everything I needed and it showed me how it worked visually.
Why can't more programming books be like this one? If you want to learn JavaScript, or if you have a little knowledge of JavaScript and you want to go further, this book is the perfect solution