book from javascript Master
The book is wonderfull written by front end engineers guild founder peter paul koch one of the best know writers about browser incompatibilities and cross browser techniques and on his blog Tables summarize all browser differences in DOM and Core javascript as a reference for developers, in the book introduction he mentioned that the book is a way to offer an easy access to the knowledge he gained since he's been professional WEB developer , and what's interesting about his way of writing is : this code is write stick to it , and this code is wrong, why ? avoid it , by this way i learned javascript best practices for writing robust code that work on every browser , the book covers the browsers history and why developers suffer and how to solidify your javascript foundation and document object model, Browser object model, Events, CSS modification, Ajax connections , beginning from no knoledge to high level knowledge each chapter is part of eight real world exapmples peter worked on . the book must be read to gain this expert knowledge , i've gain it :)
One of my favorite books on JavaScript
I've been a fan of PPK's web site for sometime, and finally bought the book. I really like the way it's organized, and presents subjects within a project that will definitely improve your .js skills and the way you approach .js problems. I highly recommend it.
Not a beginner's book
I bought this book because I was familiar with the author and his website, quirksmode. I figured this guy was a master of JavaScript and a book written from him would be a solid resource to learn from.
Well, I was half-right. Early on in the book he presents a script and says that you should know what it does before reading his book. Well, I knew what it was, but it's not the truth. This book is all about technique and execution. He shows innovative and great ways to implement code, but you have to know how to write javascript first. If you're not an experienced programmer or are unfamiliar with javascript, you may want to consider this book...after you've gotten a proven beginner's manual and gone through that first. Head First Javascript or Javascript in 21 days are good examples.
From beginner to specialist
This book talks about scripting the DOM. Everything is clearly exposed : the history that make browsers like they are and not better, the tree behind an HTML document and the nodes behind tags and attributes, how to use css properties for the best, and how to manage events and their properties in all browsers, and of course the core of the javascript language.
There is nothing about objects and all other OOP stuff, so I think this book is very well suited for beginners. But specialist will also find a lot of interesting things.
One more advantage, the presentation and layout are really more pleasant than what is generally found in this category's books.
Solidify your javascript foundation
Javascript has been around for a while but it is still going places. ppk on Javascript sorts through all the fluff to deliver rock solid information. The author is using a very clear language to express his deep experience in this field.
Javascript is moving fast and the book does not cover some of the recent advances like the rise of Ajax, ActionScript, Tamarin. It is still a must read for any serious (javascript) programmer.
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