Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us (Expert's Voice in Web Development) 1st ed. Edition

by Andrew Dupont (Author)

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In this book, Prototype Core development team member Andrew Dupont provides you with an essential guide to getting the most out of using Prototype and script.aculo.us. He will help you leverage these popular and well-supported JavaScript libraries to enhance your day-to-day work, speeding up mundane tasks and providing advanced UI effects in a way that is cross-browser compliant. The book examines the different time-saving functions and features Prototype provides and covers how it extends the basic JavaScript objects, including events, Ajax techniques, DOM elements, enumerables, and advanced OOP.

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Andrew Dupont is a web designer and developer living and working in Austin, Texas. He is a member of Prototype Core, the team that collaborates on the Prototype JavaScript Framework.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (June 24, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590599195
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590599198
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches

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just another geek

Outstanding; a clear and easy read

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2009

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This book provides an easy, breezy, clear introduction to Prototype and script.aculo.us. I'm only 20% through at this writing (having begun only a couple of days ago), but I love just about everything regarding this book.

The examples are usually very clear (one used a feature that wasn't introduced until a few pages later, but I've encountered that only once) and are presented in a conversational style without being chatty. Prototype itself appears to be very easy to integrate into a web app; I like both the design and the utility of the library.

Knowing JavaScript beforehand is not strictly necessary so long as one has the requisite background in another language (e.g., Ruby, Java, C, or Objective-C).

The book's physical properties are outstanding as well: the pages are substantial and bright, and the typography is very clear. (I don't care much for the sans-serif font used for the table of contents, but fortunately that's the only portion that's hard to read.)

On the downside, there are a few typos here and there (Google for apress prototype errata) and the screenshots are from Windows, but nobody's perfect. ;-)

All in all, this is an outstanding book. (I'd give it 4.5 stars because of the typos, but it's definitely better than 4 stars, hence the 5-star rating.)

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Reuben Sivan

Great explanations, poor editing

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2009

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As an experienced but not always savvy enough JS and CSS developer, I very much appreciated that this book not only shows you how to use Prototype and script.aculo.us, but also gives you a lot of background about the difference in core JS, HTML and CSS among the browsers and how Prototype overcomes those differences.
Overall I enjoyed the book quite a bit, however: the technical editing is really, really poor, so I have to reduce my rating a couple of points. I found tens of errors, from typos to technical errors in the sample code.

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Fredrick T. Green

Very good, but beginning javascripters beware

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2009

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I am finding and learning a lot from this book, and it is indeed helping me with practical solutions for using the Prototype and script.aculo.us toolkits. However, the book begins by diving into advanced javascripting concepts with an assumption that the reader is not just familiar with javascript but is fairly advanced themselves. Given that the book opens with a statement that these concepts are the foundation for using the toolkits, I felt a little overwhelmed right off the bat. But, Mr. Dupont does get practical and the explanations for how to use the toolkits are great, and it is worth it to wade into the waters of javascript development at a level beyond intermediate because that's where the real power appears to be.

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Lucretius' Quiet Citadel

Great for Reference

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2010

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This book is excellent for reference, superb really. However I would not recommend this as a beginner's book for Prototype. However, if you are only interested in Script.aculo.us, you can definitely use this book right away to add effects to your web sites and applications.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2009

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The book is good in that, it starts for the beginner and rapidly moves forward. I would suggest this book for anyone from beginner to well seasoned programming veterans. The book lacks programming examples, that's my opinion.

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Ericopter

This is the bees knees

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2010

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This book is awesome. The author exudes his mastery of the subject by relaying the information in an easy to understand and entertaining to read manner. If you have a basic idea of how JavaScript works and want to learn how to do much more with it, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish with ease after reading this book. Two thumbs up, five stars and a perfect 10!

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David Rankin

Awsome Book!

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2010

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Bought this book after I purchased one on JQuery and I'm glad I did. Well worth the time it takes to read it. Prototype and script.aculo.us are both well explained.

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Kevin King

Absolutely Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2008

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I would have liked a bit more on script.aculo.us, especially the Droppable, Draggable, and Sortable, but it's very good, easily understood.

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deanosrs

Exceptional in every way

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2008

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As a very experienced web developer, I want to be on the cutting edge of web development. Right now, the user interfaces on websites are beginning to turn pages into applications.

I wanted to know how, so I did some hunting around for JS libraries and came across prototype and scriptaculous. I used them for a while with references to their API's, but what that doesn't give you is how to best use the functions they provide in design and coding patterns. Nor does it alert you to the best features of the libraries.

This book, however, truly answered all my questions and more. I appreciate this sounds so very corny, but I've never written an amazon review before and made a point of writing this because the author and the rest of the development teams are pure geniuses. Not only is the content fantastic - exactly what I was looking for as an amateur JS'er, but the way in which the material is taught is fantastic. There are some great analogies drawn and some complex stuff very, very well explained.

I'd say this is the best development based book I've ever read. The only thing holding me back from writing this review as I have is the fact that I'd rather not the whole world started developing websites based on the material in this book as I intend to make a lot of money out of the step up in quality that my websites will now take!

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