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by Jonathan A. Watt (Author), Andrew H. Watt (Author), Jinjer Simon (Author)
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The aim of Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 21 Days is to tutor the Web-literate novice JavaScripter through to a high level of competency in applying JavaScript to Web pages.

In addition to core uses of client-side JavaScript, Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 21 Days also covers emerging topics such as the use of JavaScript with PDFs and the scripting of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

The key principles taught throughout the book are backed up with clear and useful examples. This enables the reader to easily apply what they¿ve learned with confidence in order to meet their own coding needs.



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The aim of Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 21 Days is to tutor the Web-literate novice JavaScripter through to a high level of competency in applying JavaScript to Web pages.

In addition to core uses of client-side JavaScript, Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 21 Days also covers emerging topics such as the use of JavaScript with PDFs and the scripting of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

The key principles taught throughout the book are backed up with clear and useful examples. This enables the reader to easily apply what they¿ve learned with confidence in order to meet their own coding needs.



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4.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners, too slow for experienced programmers, 2 Jun 2004
By Rennie Petersen (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
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I found this book very useful, and I was able to learn JavaScript from it, although I didn't follow the book's tutorials sequentially.

The most important thing to note is that this book is not really suitable for an experienced programmer who wants to add JavaScript to the list of programming languages that he/she knows. If you already know several other programming languages then you'll find the pace of this book much too slow. There are too many simple examples and too much discussion of basic programming principles.

For a beginning programmer these many examples and down-to-earth discussions are great. The authors assume that the reader has no knowledge of programming at all, which is fine if the reader is new to programming.

A couple of the especially useful things I found in this book were an example showing a clever way of using the onClick event for an "a" tag, and information about where to find the Microsoft script debugger.

On the other hand, I did find a few minor errors. And on page 20 a CD-ROM is mentioned, but in fact no CD-ROM accompanies the book. Instead, as explained on page 5, the sample files from the book are available on the Internet.

So if you're new to programming then this is a good book for you, but if you're an experienced programmer then you should find something else.

Rennie Petersen

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1.0 out of 5 stars not useable for real-world JavaScript development, 18 Jun 2002
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the book description states:
"Covers JavaScript 1.5 and compatibility issues with older versions. "

well, now this is funny. DHTML, for instance, is quite important for today's JavaScript development. However the authors only cover IE (~80% of market share) and Netscape 6 (~3% of market share), whereas Netscape 4 (~10% of market share) is not covered at all, Opera (~3%) is not covered, too! The DHTML chapters also is very, very short. But chapter 21 is about SVG, which may be a new emerging technology, however has very little to do with JavaScript, and especially not in a beginners book! Seems to me that the authors know a little bit about JavaScript but have no real-world project experience with it.
I am very disappointed, there are much better books out there.

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