Book Review: JavaScript for Programmers

Posted by tripwire45 on Apr 20, 2009 9:02 PM EDT
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When I saw the title, I assumed that this was a somewhat advanced book and not for the reader who was learning JavaScript for the first time. I work for a company that develops web applications, and they make extensive use of JavaScript. Each of the developers is well versed in JavaScript and other web programming languages, and I thought this was a JavaScript book for the experienced programmer. With that assumption in place, I was surprised to see a comment on the back of the book state "One of the best introductions to JavaScript" (from a pre-publication review by Raymond Wisman, Indiana University Southeast). An "introduction" to JavaScript? Even a casual scanning of the back cover reveals that the book is supposed present a vast cornucopia of JavaScript related topics. Deitel and Deitel have written quite a number of programming books, so I was interested to see if this indeed was a book where one could learn JavaScript from scratch.

The Deitels have written a significant number of "How to Program" books for languages including C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic, but no "How to" book appears on their website (until this one apparently) for JavaScript. Why not "JavaScript How to Program" instead of "JavaScript for Programmers" if this is a beginner's book?

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Serial Authorship == Mediocre Book phsolide 7 1,174 Apr 22, 2009 6:18 AM

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