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JavaScript
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by Don Gosselin
Sales Rank: 254016
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Discount: 6 %
$42.98
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Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Course Technology; 4 edition September 7, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1423901509
ISBN-13: 978-1423901501
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
Book Description
JavaScript, Fourth Edition is designed as a guide for beginning programmers to develop Web applications using the JavaScript programming language. It introduces a variety of techniques, focusing on what students need to know to start adding JavaScript to their Web pages. In each chapter, students perform tasks that focus on a particular technique required for building and creating JavaScript programs. The examples and exercises in this book will help students learn the basics of how to use JavaScript with well-formed Web pages, including how to manipulate the browser object model, validate forms, use object-oriented techniques, and learn how to trace and resolve errors in JavaScript programs, to name a few. Advanced topics include how to manage state information, use the Dynamic Object Model (DOM), create Dynamic HTML (DHTML), update Web pages with AJAX, and create server-side scripts.
About The Author
Don Gosselin is a technical communications expert with more than 20 years experience. His extensive technology experience includes application development, technical writing, training, and curriculum development. Don is also a highly respected technical author, having written numerous reference works for various publishers and a dozen college-level textbooks for Course Technology/Thomson Learning. His best-selling JavaScript textbook was the first textbook to be published on the JavaScript language and continues to be the industry leader six years after its initial publication. In addition, he has written or contributed to textbooks on Java programming, Microsoft Visual C++ 6 and .NET, Web design technologies, Web programming languages, XHTML, and PHP programming with MySQL. Don currently works at Oracle Corporation as a principal technical writer responsible for identity management and provisioning documentation.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Although the content is for the most part good, I have found after just two chapters that there are so many typos (tags not closed properly, etc.) and left out content (such as CDATA statements,) the lessons end up generating JavaScript errors and don't validate, so you have to go back and modify the script on your own - not an easy task when you are just learning, since you have to research the issue using alternate resources. It appears that the author copy-and-pasted his errors into further examples. In addition, you are asked to type comments that are not explained, so you don't know why you are including them. Also, in one of the Case Projects in chapter 1, you are asked to try to fix a problem that is not addressed until Chapter 2. I am taking JavaScript as a college course, and our class is a little frustrated.
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