Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals (Paperback)

~ Dan Barrett (Author), Dan Livingston (Author), Micah Brown (Author)

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Product Description

Designed to guide you through JavaScript using examples taken straight from situations that are faced every day during Web site construction. Softcover. DLC: JavaScript (Computer program language).

From the Back Cover

With JavaScript, you can build sites that look hotter and work smarter than ever before! Now, learn JavaScript by example, from two leading Fortune 500 Web developers! You'll learn all you need to get results as you build real-world practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, offer subscriptions, and display ads. Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web—so you can reuse the code and see exactly how your pages should look and work!

Write JavaScript to do all this, and much more!

• Detect browsers and platforms
• Create content dynamically
• Create image rollovers
• Enhance navigation
• Provide error handling
• Generate windows
• Communicate between frames Rely on Essential Guides for ALL the Web Skills You Need!

All these books share the same great format, and the same dynamic website. . .

so once you've used one, they're all a piece of cake!

• Essential CSS & DHTML for Web Professionals
• Essential PERL 5 for Web Professionals
• Essential Photoshop 5 for Web Professionals
• Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals
• With more to come!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 198 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (August 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130130567
• ISBN-13: 978-0130130563
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,689,946 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Learn JavaScript Now! (but not with this book), January 7, 2000

By	Brian Donnelly (Tigard, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Some of the hardest things to find in life are people who hate pizza, short lines and good Java books. This book is nothing short of a waist of time if you are not experienced with Javascript. The examples in this book are consistantly flawed with mistakes that would make any programmer want to slap the editor. There is no resource for accessing the scripts from the web like in the other essential books, leaving you to figure out how the hell to get the script working because the example they gave you is erroring all over the place. The only way I could recommend this book would be if you were looking for ideas on how to program. It gives some interesting concepts of how to accomplish some neet things with Javascript. It might make a good companion for study but I would keep a dish of holy water and some salt nearby, you'll need it. Other than that stay away from this book, I wouldn't wish this catastrophy on my worst enemy...well maybe.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Proper Coding Would Help, November 17, 1999

By	S. Samuel (Bronx, NY now Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really regretted buying this book. For the most part it's a descent book but for it's not for a beginner. There were a few tags that the code left out. I'm referring to the scripting for JavaScript Navigation. The FORM tag was missing and it wasn't giving a NAME attribute. A beginner would not have picked this up so easily. I don't recommend this for beginners. If you really want the book, contact me and I'll give you my copy...

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good idea.. poor delivery -- beginners don't bother!, April 23, 2000

By A Customer

I liked the start of the book. You have just been hired to improve the web site for Shelly Biotechnologies..... The book contains a series of assignments or projects you solve. I don't see how a beginner can understand any of yet. I am professional programmer looking for teaching material for a JavaScript class. If I selected this book I would have had to teach a lot of programming concepts because the authors left it all out or didn't cover it in sufficient detail. I also agree with the folks about the numerous errors. I also question the programming expertise of the authors. I saw some unneccesary consructs that grated on my programming nerves (how could they miss it? do they really know how to program?) If they meant to produce a "copy and paste" approach to JavaScript. By this I mean, copy and paste this into your HTML make the required changes for your images or objects and don't worry about understanding anything. They failed. If it was meant to teach PROGRAMMING Javascript, they failed. If it was meant to familiarize a professional programmer with Javascript, they failed here too. So what was the point? I instruct my students to first "identify your audience", these authors should have done the same! I do not recommend this book. Check out the book "Internet & World Wide Web, How to Program" by Deitel. It is my selection as a JavaScript text. This book is not on my supplemental recommendation list.