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JavaScript, A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition (Beginner's Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill)) |  | Author: John Pollock
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0071632956
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9780071632959
Publication Date: September 11, 2009
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Product Description
Essential Skills--Made Easy!Create dynamic Web pages complete with special effects using today's leading Web development language. JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition gives you step-by-step coverage of the fundamentals, including variables, functions, operators, event handlers, objects, arrays, strings, forms, and frames. You'll also learn about more advanced techniques, including debugging and security. This hands-on guide explains how JavaScript works with XHTML Transitional and covers the new features available in JavaScript. Get started using JavaScript right away with help from this fast-paced tutorial. Designed for Easy Learning: Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter Ask the Expert--Q & A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered - Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
Self Tests--End-of-chapter reviews to test your knowledge - Annotated syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated
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 Beginners Javascript September 8, 2010
g.lewis
I bought the book also and read it from cover to cover. This is the best tutorial book I have ever read on a beginning programing language. If you dont know anything about javascript, you will have all the basics you need to go ahead and dive into the complex stuff. I cant wait to get another book from this publisher.
A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript August 31, 2010
E. Suarez (Florida)
Well, I ordered this book for a college course called: Scripting for Web. I hope to learn how to use and effectively use JavaScript to enhance and create dynamic web pages. It may be similar to PHP but there are some differences. We did an exercise last class, and the instructor didn't know how make comment. I did not want to take a second chance with a teacher that doesn't know what he's doing. So I ordered the book to learn myself.
I'll update the review after I get a feel for this book and it's teaching methods.
 This might have been a good beginner's JavaScript book... August 30, 2010
Gabriel
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
... if they had bothered to proofread it! It is full of mistakes. Many sentences don't make any sense at all. It looks like they scanned the real book and threw it into a Kindle edition without checking if OCR jacked up the sentences. Some pages have 3 or 4 sentences with strange repeating text like: "...you should define the function that will be called before you define the function that will be called before you define the function that calls it..." (Locations 1,944-62). There are entire sections that have so many mistakes, I can't understand what the author is trying to say. Unbelievable!
This is probably the publisher's fault, and I feel sorry for Mr. Pollock. It seems like he might have written a pretty good book for JavaScript beginners. I wish I could read it!
 JavaScript Beginners Guide, Real Easy, Maybe Too Easy July 5, 2010
Mark Wuilleumier (Iowa)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was an all-in-all, good book. I have a pretty good technical background with my MS in computer science, but pretty new to Web technologies. Therefore, I was looking for a rather simplistic approach to JavaScript since I have NO background in that area. I always shy away from the "...For Dummies" books since I should at least be beyond that stage in technology, but this book is probably below the Dummies books. No programming background would be needed and not even much technical ability. Although I am biased, I have a hard time thinking how anybody would have trouble understanding this book or doing the exercises. A lot of the examples are overly simplistic and silly, but this could suit a non-programmer type well. As for me, ideally I would have liked a book that talked to programmer types more and was a little deeper. But my objectives were reached with this book: understand JavaScript code I run into, and be able to write little scripts to accomplish things I need to on my site. Before the book was finished I actually implemented some of what I learned to actually solve a problem on my site. That is pretty impressive.
Finally...a guide for beginners! July 2, 2010
CaroleG (Northern, CA)
When I wanted to create my own genealogy website, I learned CSS and HTML from Ian Lloyd's book Build Your Own Web Site. That's a fantastic book for the beginner and when I wanted to learn JavaScript, I bought another book from the same publisher, Sitepoint. Their book, Simply JavaScript (NOT by Ian Lloyd) was a nightmare for me! I wrote the publishers in frustration and they wrote a nice note in return; they told me it's hard to teach beginning JavaScript. So I turned to online guides, w3, etc. and it was just as confusing. If you have no programming experience, I don't think JavaScript is the best first language. Fortunately, after reading some of these reviews on Amazon for John Pollock's book, I decided to buy JavaScript, The Beginner's Guide. So THANK YOU to the reviewers on this site for your positive comments. I suppose by the time I bought this book I did have some understanding of JavaScript, but I still think it's a wonderful book for the beginner. No other source, online or books, explains JavaScript as well. No, I'm not an expert on JavaScript; far from it. And I agree with the one reviewer that Mr. Pollock needs a second book - one that has tons of exercises (real world - like adding a slideshow, a pulldown menu, a search engine - useful things - and reference your first book in case we want to go back to the lesson). After finishing this book you will still need to learn more, but basic ideas will make sense.
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