JavaScript: The Good Parts
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Finally, a JavaScript book not for beginners and one that says so upfront! How refreshing. I was a little doubtful when I first read the back cover, but then reassured when part of the Preface said, "This is not a book for beginners...This is not a book for dummies...This book is small, but it is dense". Actually, I was wondering how a book less than 200 pages was going to present JavaScript, if it was indeed written for beginners. To nail down the target audience a little more, I'll continue to quote, "It is intended for programmers who...are venturing into JavaScript for the first time. It is also intended for programmers who have been working with JavaScript at a novice level and are now ready for a more sophisticated relationship..."
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The idea behind this book is that there is a lot of inefficiency to how JavaScript can be implemented. Sure, inefficient JavaScript still works, but either not as well as it could, or at the cost of wasted effort and cluttered code. Crockford's intent is to strip away all of the excess and to show the reader how to write a "lean, mean" JavaScript. Sort of the equivalent of Dragnet's Detective Joe Friday's famous line, "The facts ma'am, just the facts". That's what you are supposed to learn from this book once you have more than a clue as to what JavaScript is and how to write JavaScript. You get to learn how to write JavaScript the "right way". Full Story |
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