Don't waste your money or time with this one
The title of this book JavaScript Complete isn't only missleading its an outwright lie. The book is writen at the most basic of all levels, even someone with no programming experience would find it to basic. The size of the book could be cut in half if it wern't for the incredible about of code repition. Oh, while I'm on the subject of code his coding style is sad to say the least, not to mention the fact I found I few things to be just plane wrong. Don't be fooled by the title there is nothing complete about this book, I honestly can't emagine anyone who would benifit from it. Your money would be much better spent on a less expencive more comprehesive book.
It is "Complete"!!
I have found "JavaScript Complete" a very good recource for all of the JavaScript commands. "JavaScript Complete" is not just a programmers reference but a book suited for students or web developers, amateur or professional! I also liked the CD that came with the book because it contains an abundance of pre-made html code and totally follows the books content. If your definitely into JavaScript and html this book is a must.
A friendly introduction to the language
Unfortunately, the title is very misleading so I gave it a three instead of a four, but the book offers the beginner a good, painless foundation to the language. It doesn't cover all the intricacies of JavaScript, but it puts you in a position to pursue the more comprehensive but not as friendly treatments found in the some of the other texts (e.g., O'Reilly, JavaScript Bible).It points out the incompatibilty in the browsers, and gives basic treatments for handling each.
Though I'm an experienced programmer, I read it on my daily bus commute in a week. The book assumes a basic familiarity with HTML, and little programming knowledge.
A tutorial only
This book provides some basic tutorials for learning JavaScript. Some of the tutorials are good but others are not adequately explained. It includes a partial explanation of objects but assumes prior knowledge of structured programming. Lots of unnecessary repetition of code listings makes the book twice as thick as it needs to be. It is useless as a reference book, so I think the title is misleading. This book by itself will not teach you JavaScript . I was able to use this book as a starting point to learn JavaScript but only because I also referred to other books and on-line reference sources. I think including a CD is just an excuse to charge $50 for what should have been a $15 book; I didn't find anything useful on the CD.
Good starter book for JavaScript
I like this book a lot because unlike the other books dealing with JavaScript this one very readable.
