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Product Description
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that’s more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.
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Price: $19.48
Rating: 4.0 (55 reviews)
JavaScript: The Good Parts
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December 19th, 2009 on 4:52 pm
If you are looking for real-world examples of how to put JavaScript to work, this is not your book. Some of the information is useful, but to little to justify the price of the book. After this read, I did realize one thing for sure: JavaScript is a pretty lame language and needs to go away.
Rating: 2 / 5
December 19th, 2009 on 5:37 pm
I have to wonder if the positive reviewers actually read much of this, it’s so surface. This book will neither teach you javascript nor interest the experience programmer for more than about 15 minutes.
The money could be much better spent on a truly useful book.
Rating: 2 / 5
December 19th, 2009 on 8:18 pm
it’s amazing that many great people don’t know how to teach…somebody who loves this language so much to write so little and not explaining and providing examples……
The same thing you could find online…..
Don’t take me wrong, you will learn a thing or two, but that’s not the point.
So called diagrams or flow, whatever they are, they are totally useless.
Rating: 2 / 5
December 19th, 2009 on 8:48 pm
This is a short, well-written book that covers its topic, JavaScript, beautifully. Sadly, JavaScript is not a topic worthy of its own book.
With such limited built-in libraries and a major browser maker hostile to improving them, JavaScript exists only as a tool for manipulating web browsers. The challenges faced by JS programmers do not include language issues such as dynamic scoping or functions-as-objects, but the nonsensical, incompatible, browser document object models (DOMs).
As a book about the good parts of JavaScript, the DOM is not covered. Sadly, its not the good parts we need a book on.
Rating: 3 / 5
December 19th, 2009 on 10:34 pm
I was very disapppointed in this book. For the price of the book there was very little content. I am returning this book and buying something with more substance.
Rating: 2 / 5