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Learn JavaScript In a Weekend w CD (In a Weekend)
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by Jerry Lee Ford Jr.
Sales Rank: 1509903
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$1.35
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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition February 22, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076153332X
ISBN-13: 978-0761533320
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
You don't have to be a programming expert in order to use JavaScript to create a stunning, powerful Web site! Learn JavaScript™ In a Weekend® provides you with all the information and examples you will need to make your Web site unforgettable. On Friday evening you will learn all the prerequisite background information for working with JavaScript. By the end of the session, you'll be writing your first JavaScript! On Saturday you'll learn the basics of JavaScript coding, master object-oriented programming, and learn specific ways to spice up your Web site. Sunday will bring concepts on advanced JavaScript programming as well as a chapter dedicated to pulling together everything that you have learned.
About The Author
Jerry Lee Ford, Jr. is an author, educator, and an IT professional with more than 18 years of experience in information technology, including roles as an automation analyst, technical manager, technical support analyst, automation engineer, and security analyst. Jerry has a master’s degree in business administration from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of 22 other books and co-author of 2 additional books. His published works include AppleScript Studio Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Microsoft Windows Shell Scripting for the Absolute Beginner, Perl Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Beginning REALbasic, Microsoft Windows Shell Scripting and WSH Administrator’s Guide, VBScript Professional Projects, and Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner. He has more than five years of experience as an adjunct instructor teaching networking courses in information technology. Jerry lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife, Mary, and their children, William, Alexander,and Molly.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Following the pattern of the "In a Weekend" books, this book is divided into a Friday night session followed by morning, afernoon and evening sessions for Saturday and Sunday. The author suggests a familiarity with HTML before undertaking this book and recommends "Learn HTML In a Weekend" by Steve Callihan (I've read the Mac edition). He then spends around thirty pages on a review of HTML. Among JavaScript topics covered are objects, strings, functions, controlling the browser status bar, and creating roll-over effects. Along the way you will leaarn to make a JavaScript "clock" and how to "bake" and check for a cookie. Surprisingly I don't think Mr. Ford ever makes a really convincing argument for the use of JavaScript. Add to that "typos" and the fact that the CD ROM won't work as advertised on the Mac (although it does seem to run with out incident on a PC) and you get the idea the book could have been better. Other issues I have with this book are: 1.A good case is made by the author for using Netscape Navigator along with this "course" with most of the examples illustrating Navigator but his "Nav" preference is not mentioned until later in the book. It would have been better to state this earlier. 2.Mr Ford says you should explicitly declare variables, but in most of his examples he does not. Finally, if the example set by the book he recommends ("...HTML In a Weekend") was followed--that of diagraming each command as it is introduced and walking the reader through each example this book would be less frustrating. All in all I think this book might be suited to a classroom enviroment where an instructor could answer questions and point out errors. You can learn some JavaScript from this book, but is more frustrating than it needs to be. I was disappointed.
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Learn JavaScript In a Weekend w CD (In a Weekend)
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Price: $1.35
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