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JavaScript Sourcebook: Create Interactive JavaScript Programs for the World Wide Web
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by Gordon McComb
Sales Rank: 1857455
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$0.81
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Paperback: 752 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons July 1996
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471161853
ISBN-13: 978-0471161851
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Product Review
For the HTML expert who wants to expand his or her knowledge into a thorough understanding of JavaScript, JavaScript Sourcebook is an excellent choice. This book opens with generalities about programming doctrine, appropriate use of JavaScript, and discussions of such programming concepts as variables, operators, strings, and loops. It then launches into in-depth coverage of every object, property, function, operator, expression, data type, and event handler in the JavaScript 1.1 language specification.
JavaScript Sourcebook wraps up with practical JavaScript information, including a handy "Fixing Broken JavaScript Programs" chapter that lists the 11 most common JavaScript programming errors and the methods for correcting them. There is also good documentation of JavaScript's capacity for working with HTML frames and outstanding information about advanced client-side topics, such as pull-based updates and image maps.
Computer-book authors frequently load their companion CD-ROMs with the source code from the chapters and leave it at that. McComb has arranged for permission to include Bill Dortch's useful hIdaho frameset functions on the CD-ROM that accompanies JavaScript Sourcebook. Though the functions are available on the Web, having them at hand is a plus for programmers.
Book Description
The JavaScript SourceBook is a complete tutorial and reference for using JavaScript, teaching developers how to create JavaScripts and integrate them into HTML pages. With up-to-the-minute tips on creating JavaScript applications that take full advantage of new features in NetScape 3.0, the book explores JavaScript basics and features extensive discussions of advanced techniques, including JavaScript workarounds and Java applet construction for JavaScript.
Includes CD-ROM with A library of ready to use JavaScript Applications and routines, plus a selection of reusable Java Components that readers can build into their JavaScript programs.
JavaScript allows programmers to build Web sites nearly as sophisticated as a Java Web site without having to do the actual programming. This will enable non-programmers to create Web sites with animation, 3D graphics, and more.
Customer Reviews & Comments
First and most important, the book is outdated. The author even expresses this on his web site gmccomb.com/javascript/ and recommends the "JavaScript Bible" as an updated alternative to his own book. JavaScript Sourcebook is mostly based on Netscape Navigator 3.0. Further, I agree with other review comments about inconsistancies and not having loads of JavaScript source code examples that I would expect from a title of "Sourcebook". One example of being inconsistant, on page 65 the author says "Despite popular belief, Java is not based on either C or C++.", then later on page 71 he states "Java is based on the C++ programming language and deeply embraces object-oriented programming precepts."
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