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ppk on JavaScript (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)

by Peter-Paul Koch (Author)

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: New Riders; annotated edition edition (5 Oct 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0321423305
ISBN-13: 978-0321423306
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 2.5 cm

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"ppk on JavaScript is a well-written and cleanly structured walk through useful JavaScript examples. It is extremely practical, and goes right to the core of what a web programmer needs to know about JavaScript to build real sites, right now.

In essence, it reminds me of how I learned to work on the web in the first place: careful examination of other people’s work. At its best, this book is a clearly annotated view source of Koch’s projects. It’s a comprehensive exploration of Koch’s thoughts about the problems he’s run into (problems that you’ll run into, too), how he approached them, and ultimately how he’s solved them." -- Mike West, Managing Editor, Digital Web Magazine

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Whether you're an old-school scripter who needs to modernize your JavaScripting skills or a standards-aware Web developer who needs best practices and code examples, you'll welcome this guide from a JavaScript master.

Other JavaScript books use example scripts that have little bearing on real-world Web development and are useful only in the chapter at hand. In contrast, Peter-Paul Koch's book uses eight real-world scripts he created for real-world clients in order to earn real-world money. That means the scripts are guaranteed to do something useful (and sellable!) that enhances the usability of the page they're used on.

The book's example scripts include one that sorts a data table according to the user's search queries, a form validation script, a script that shows form fields only when the user needs them, a drop-down menu, and a data retrieval script that uses simple Ajax and shows the data in an animation.

After an overview of JavaScript's purpose, Peter-Paul provides theoretical chapters on the context (jobs for JavaScript, CSS vs. JavaScript), the browsers (debugging, the arcana of the browser string), and script preparation. Then follow practical chapters on Core, BOM, Events, DOM, CSS Modification, and Data Retrieval, all of which are explained through a combination of theoretical instruction and the taking apart of the relevant sections of the example scripts.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, but a bit advanced for beginners, 10 May 2007

By	S. Gilmore (Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read this book hoping to learn a little bit of javascript for a website. It's a very comprehensive review, but for beginners it's probably too advanced to pick much up without reading from cover to cover.
I tend to like to try out some examples and get a feel for the basic of a language first, but this book doesn't take that approach - instead, it explains a lot of theory, and then gets you doing things towards the end.
Furthermore, the author makes reference to a set of example scripts which he wrote for various projects, but never actually gives the full scripts - instead, he looks at bits of each in every chapter. I found this very very confusing. One of the example scripts was to do dropdown menus, which was what I wanted to do, but the script was so split up over different chapters that I was unable to put it back together to try it out.
He also gives a number of deliberately wrong examples, to demonstrate how not to do things, but again I was confused by these, especially as some of them came before the corresponding correct example - I want things I can type in and play with, and then maybe some wrong examples at the end - but ultimately, I want to know how to do it, not how to not do it!
I think that if you read this book cover to cover, you'd probably come away as a bit of an expert, but if, like me, you like to dip in and out of computer books and try examples and get a feel for the language early on, then this is not the book for you.
In saying that, it is very comprehensive and covers a lot of ground, so for someone who already knew some javascript, it'd be a good reference guide.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Practical Javascript Book, 13 Dec 2008

By	A. J. Murphy "Web Architect" (Oxford) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a fantastic practical javascript book. Its not for the absolute beginner. You should have a basic understanding of Javascript before attempting this book. However once you do you will not regret it and the book lives up to its authors promise of getting you up to intermediate javascript developer level. Five stars all the way for being such a practical useful book.

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