This book gave me hope.

Unlike the other reviewers before me, I'm coming from a completely different background. I've never learned programming, and after close to ten years of trying to pick it up, while working as a "web developer" on the front end side of web design (graphics and UI development), this graphic artist never thought he'd finally "get it".

Yet this book gave me real hope. I walked away able to read the code the other programmers I work with had written. Almost right away, I was able to see how a programmer was calling a function he had embedded in the link, with two parameters, and how he was testing their conditions."

I've been frustrated by online tutorials, and other books; but this one did a really good job of explaining the basics. True, the humor might have been more suited for "How to use Windows for Soccer Moms", and many times I had wished there were more examples and exercises to practice the concepts just covered. In fact, I wish there was a big, thick book that was devoted to JavaScript exercises--from basics to advanced scripting.

But, despite some of its inefficiencies, the proof is in the pudding. This none-programming digital artist--who has been around the Web since 1995--has finally been able to start coding in JavaScript from scratch. IMHO this book is a real gem.

Other Reviews

• This book gave me hope.
• Read This Twice: a complete NEWCOMMER JavaScript book
• Hopeless
• Not recomended.
• so - so *yawn*