JavaScript For Dummies

Description: I agree with the folks who say this isn't really a bad book, but it is misleadingly titled. If you have experience with object oriented programming languages like Visual Basic you will be able to learn some things about javascript with it. If not, you will be lost. Very little time is spent on the basics, and what there is isn't very good. An example: at the start of the chapter introducing objects, the author begins with a somewhat complicated example(for a beginner) involving "this" referances without explaining how "this" works, several objects that are contained within other objects, and two functions. The code used to illustrate these ideas consists of a few brief lines, without much context or explanation. Further confusing things is the author's habit of refering to everything as an object, from functions to properties, and this after an analogy comparing an object to a noun. Very confusing. You just have all these terms and concepts dumped on you at once, and all of it barely .. ISBN: 0764506331 Release Date: May, 2000 List Price: $17.49 Author: Emily A. Vander Veer Publisher: For Dummies Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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