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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Javascript (The Complete Idiot's Guide) Review by Paul J. Moade
so - so *yawn*
I've purchased a couple books to try and gain a firm understanding of javascript. Unfortunately, I haven't found one I would really recommend yet.
This one is okay, but not really great. The style of writing (humor) tends to make some subject matter confusing. Do I really care about whether I want coke with my pizza when trying to learn about how to make a function? So much better if there were a concrete example there so I could have seen how the code really works - a real life example.
Eventually, they got the idea across, but it would have been so much better without all the levity.
Some parts of the book are very sketchy as well. I wanted to learn how to make cookies, but found some of the basics about how to set the expiration date were completely unexplained. I suppose I could make the code work by trial and error, but that's not why I want a book. I want to be taught.
In all fairness, this book does do a very good job on explaining some items. It helped me the most on statements, functions, operators and the like.
All in all, it's not worthless. But I believe you can (and probably want) a better book than this to learn by.
~P~