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Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) 1st ed. Edition

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JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential guide for modern JavaScript programming; it's practical but comprehensive. It covers everything you need to know to get up to speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages and program Ajax-style applications.

Experienced web developer Christian Heilmann begins gently by giving you an overview of JavaScriptits syntax, good coding practices, and the principles of DOM scripting. Then he builds up your JavaScript toolkit, covering dynamically manipulating markup, changing page styling on the fly using the CSS DOM, validating forms, dealing with images, and much more. Then he takes you to advanced territory, with a complete case study illustrating how many new JavaScript techniques can work together, plus a great introduction to Ajax development.

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    1590596803
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  4. Publisher
    Apress
  5. Publication date
    July 13, 2006
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 1.16 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    536 pages
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Christian Heilmann grew up in Germany and, after a year working with people with disabilities through the Red Cross, he spent a year as a radio producer. Beginning in 1997, he worked for several agencies in Munich as a web developer. In 2000, he moved to the U.S. to work for eToys and, after the dot-com crash, he moved to the U.K., where he currently works as a lead developer for Agilisys. He publishes an almost-daily blog at http://wait-till-i.com and runs an article repository at http://icant.co.uk. He is a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (July 13, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 536 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590596803
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590596807
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.16 x 9.25 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful.
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Ben
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, but lacking something
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2007
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I bought this book because I am a web designer, but I'm terrible with Javascript, so I intended to try to figure it out a little bit with this book. It seems promising, as it goes from the ground all the way up to Ajax, but it uses the annoying practice of code snippets interspersed throughout the text, which can get kind of confusing.

I'm also not positive all of the examples work, although that could be my own error. It's definitely not a bad book, but it is probably slightly over the heads of individuals such as I.
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Michael Green
5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2007
I have been going through a lot of javascript books to find that all of them want to teach you the trivial things javascript can do. Not only are the examples trivial, they teach the reader horrible habits. This book doesn't have any "Hello World" examples. It gets into what javascript SHOULD be used for, and how to use it correctly. Other reviews have said that the examples do not work. Do not let that throw you off. I went through the ENTIRE book and every single example worked for me. There are a few towards the end that require a server or a local host like xampp, but either way they still worked. Another review also complained about the DOMhelp library that Chris creates. Chris explains EVERY method in that library before you use it. The library does not do trivial things like "getLinks" You learn how to do that the regular way with the DOM. I think that reviewer got that method mixed up with DOMhelp.getTarget which gets the correct target that a user clicked on depending on which browser the user is using. That is mostly what Chris developed the library for, browser cross compatibility so you don't have to write extensive code. Simply put, some of the other reviews were not very well thought out. If you want to learn useful javascript the right way with plenty of examples to help you learn it, then this is the book for you.
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Edward P. Sager
1.0 out of 5 stars From Novice? No.
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2006
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I am a novice with the use of JavaScript in settings outside of Adobe Acrobat. I thought this book would be perfect to help me translate my knowledge from Adobe Acrobat JavaScript to using JavaScript in website development, as well as help me to have a beginning level of understanding of JavaScript so that learning ASP might be easier. I was wrong.

This book is very disorganized. While giving many examples, it introduces new elements in the JavaScript without any explanation as to what they are or what they do. I found many of the new elements were eventually discussed in future chapters, but what good is that? Understanding the foundation is important to building one's knowledge in a subject and this book seems to ignore such a fact.

Also, explanations given are quite technical and hardly deep enough to actually understand the code. Unfortunately, the author also bad grammar (is that the norm for computer programmers?). Not good for the novice.

Many examples are given, but we see the results of very few of the examples. Most examples end with variations of, "The new property did X, and the other properties did Y." Few examples go into a little more detail as to X, while most do not go into any details as Y. In other words, when one element/property/object is introduced and two are used in the script, only the one element/property/object introduced is explained.

The term "primitive" was never explained. The "Date" object examples used many new script items and the explanations were vague, inadequate and useless.

The script example using the random number generator to mimic the rolling of a die (page 38) implies that multiplying 5*0 will never result in 0, but multiplying 6*0 will result in the occasional 0. A little later, the author includes adding 1 to the 5*random number, but this example shows the lack of order with explanations and examples which is endemic to this book.

I am unsure if I will get another book on JavaScript because this book shows me nothing that JavaScript can do which other more accepted technologies cannot do with more programming ease, greater functionality or greater assurance that the result will appear in browsers the way which was intended.
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EC
2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2009
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The book sets out to give you real-life examples of what you can accomplish with JavaScript, offering some real-life solutions to browser support issues and users with that don't have JavaScript enabled. All of that sounds great in theory, but it's a mistake to dump tons of this kind of information on JavaScript beginners without a cleaner, more digestible introduction. In fact, all of those supportability concerns could have been and, indeed, should have been, dealt with all the way at the end, perhaps in an advanced chapter or two that conclude the book with real-life problems and solutions to these problems.

For the most part, the book is nothing more than a poorly documented and poorly organized set of examples that only serve to frustrate the reader. It really reads like it was thrown together in a rush just to get it over with, rather than with any specific goal in mind.

Very disappointed and looking for a much better tutorial.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2014
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Craig Woodworth
3.0 out of 5 stars not much to comment on really, 94% of IT ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2015
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not much to comment on really, 94% of IT is dead, meaning 94% of MD's have been kicked out for being fake.
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Barry Normal
1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously underwhelmed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2008
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Having got to the point where I was working on a site and needed some quick and easy insight into possible javascript solutions to common problems I ended up throwing this book across the room in frustration.

Some people are good at explaining and good at teaching. Even just good at writing. You cannot say that about this book. The most annoying thing was the 'we're not going to do that, we're going to do something a bit different' concept.

No, just do the simple thing, then I'll work out how to add the frills myself.

If you're looking for a handy introduction that will later serve as a basic reference. Keep looking.
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