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Designing with JavaScript: Creating Dynamic Web Pages (Web Review Studio Series) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Nick Heinle (Author)
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  • Paperback: 252 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1565923006
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565923003
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 20.3 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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Designing with JavaScript is an excellent learn-by-example tutorial that helps you create dynamic content for your Web site. Each chapter tackles a single topic with a relaxed and conversational tone. The thoroughly explained examples in each chapter are blocked off in green for quick reference and included on the accompanying CD-ROM. Whiz-kid author Nick Heinle--author of the JavaScript Tip of the Week Web site and closet high school student--covers a lot of ground, from dynamic frames, forms, and cookies to the latest in both 4.0 browsers' versions of Dynamic HTML. One excellent chapter demonstrates how to easily include multiple versions of your scripts to work with versions of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, depending on which browser views the page.

This is one the best titles available for relative newcomers or Web designers who want to get waist-deep in scripting as quickly as possible. However, Heinle's examples will also be useful to anyone with an interest in JavaScript. --Jake Bond

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This isn't a hard-core programming book; it isn't geared toward someone who has a computer science degree from MIT and five years experience of programming in C++. This is the JavaScript book for the rest of us. Written by the author of the "JavaScript Tip of the Week" Web site, this book focuses on the most useful and applicable scripts for making truly interactive, engaging Web sites (and it doesn't proclaim to be the definitive all-knowing JavaScript guide). You'll not only have quick access to the scripts you need, you'll finally understand why the scripts work, how to alter the scripts to get the effects you want, and, ultimately, how to write your own groundbreaking scripts from scratch. Through his popular Web site, Nick Heinle has been showing Web designers and other nonprogrammers how to create the scripts they need. In fact, he wrote much of the JavaScript used on the Web today. This book is the culmination of his work. His explanations are clear, detailed, and accessible; everything - every script, every concept, every line - is explained so that "the rest of us" will understand. Designing with JavaScript covers many of the powerful capabilities that JavaScript is given with Dynamic HTML, in a few chapters covering important aspects of implementing Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 as well as Netscape Navgigator 4.0. You'll learn how to create pages on the fly, how to identify users' browsers, how to create "rollover" effects with sound, graphics, and animation, and more. It also features a CD-ROM and Web site that provide fast access to some of the author's most useful functions and scripts, making it easy to find the code you need and to build your own custom scripts.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners who know HTML, 15 Jun 1999
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If you've been writing HTML for a while and want to get into javascripting this is a good start. You don't have to learn the language of javascript, but instead learn by doing some projects. The projects are really what most people want javscript for anyway: using forms, frames, cookies, and image rollovers. It helps to have a little programming background already. The fact that the book is a little out of date actually helps because everything covered has already been implemented in both browsers by now. One problem I had was the included CD which has the examples come up in HTML, but it comes up as source text instead of a working example. It should have both (or just the working example since you can always view source on your own). Since the data on the CD is only about 3 or 4 MB it's not like they were short on space. If you will do a lot of javscripting you will probably need to buy a more complete reference eventually.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have book for beginners!, 9 Dec 1997
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I've been working with HTML for a few years now, but ever since Javascript came on the scene I've kept away from it, as I was scared and thought it was "hard core programming". Finally I bit the bullet and went to buy a book on Javascript. I looked through all the dense, confusing, propeller-head books on the shelves, and then I found Nick's book. Incredible - absolutely incredible. Within 15 minutes I finally understood how Javascript worked! Within an hour I was working away in Javascript like I'd known it for months! Granted, if you already know a lot about Javascript, this book probably isn't for you. But if you were like me - interested, yet no knowledge whatsoever, this is definitely the book for you. Entertaining, easy to understand, REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES (which is much more than most other Javascript books can say)... just amazing. Buy it. 'nuff said.
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4.0 out of 5 stars To begin at the beginning..., 12 April 2000
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If you're a beginner at JavaScript and you don't want pure programming forced down your throat, start with this book. The reference books (JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, JavaScript: Pocket Reference) are *not* beginners' books. Nick's book makes a good job of bridging the gap for HTML coders who want to do something a bit more dynamic. There *are* bugs in some of the code - unfortunately I have lost the errata slip from mine. One of the bugs that I originally blamed on the book turned out to be a bug in Netscape - my apologies Nick. Once this book has got you going and your appetite for JavaScript has been whetted, I would recommend that you obtain the references that I mentioned earlier. Although I now use these more, I still refer to Nick's book on a regular basis.
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1.0 out of 5 stars "how not to do"
there isn't much to say.. i always loved O'Reilly books, they always got me used to superior content and adequate prices. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars useless
i bought it hoping to learn javascript and to this end it is just terrible, such a waste of money. the amount of detail is paltry, it really skims over the language. dont buy it.
Published on 26 Feb 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacking enough explanation & too many errors
This book is OK to get up & running with JavaScript if you adapt things yourself & play about, but there is often a lack of real explanation. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for people who want to learn JavaScript
I wanted a book to learn how to write JavaScript - and this book is NOT it. If you want a book with half a dozen scripts ready to use, with explainations of how to adapt them for... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Very basic. Total beginners only.
This book give a very basic introduction to JavaScript. It teaches the reader about a few dozen specific uses and nothing else. Read more
Published on 15 May 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars OK beginners book
This book is fine if you don't really have a programming background, otherwise you're probably going to find it a bit basic
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great, but you may want to wait for his 2000 edition
This is a really great book. Well written, easy to follow, and with some very useful sample files on the CD. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners ONLY
This book is great. I had no expericance of JavaScript AT ALL and bought this book after searching for it here, at Amazon. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I have bought in ages. (seriously!)
Being totally new to JavaScript, I wanted to learn how to do cool things to web sites. This book shows you examples, walks you through them, and then supplies them on the CD... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars first impressions
I've just had this book delivered to my house by Amazon.co.uk. I've been reading it for about half an hour and already I've learnt something. Read more
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