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JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Tom Negrino
ReleaseDate: 10 July, 2003
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Rating:

This book is OK
I was hoping for a book better than this for a college course. Believe it or not, this book is an acutal textbook for a course I am taking in college. .

As always a great product from QuickStart
This book keeps up the tradition. I have used QuickStart books for a number of years to get into/get started with new technology and software, and they have consistantly impressed. I highly recommend it. A great resource for anyone getting into, or improving their knowledge of JavaScript. Go buy it, you won't be sorry.

Great "How To" and "WHY"
In fact, I have been in professional services for years because it takes to long to realize results with traditional programming. I am one of the most impatient programmers on the face of the earth. Web development has sucked me back into the fray, and I enjoy the immediacy of the langugages involved. Code it -- look at it! Works perfectly for me! However, I am now a senior analyst, and nothing in my job description calls for these skills.

As the new director of technology (website guru) for my professional association, I found myself at a loss. I know HTML, and a smattering of java, but knew nothing about PHP, CSS, real JAVA programming or MySQL, which are the basis for our group's website. I took over in January of 2006, with a major symposium scheduled for March 2006. Everything and it's grandmother needed to be released on that site, which had been neglected over the past year (the old DOT was sent to Iraq!). In short order, I needed to know it all and do it all. This same review will be used for the Java and PHP/MySQL books. THESE BOOKS ARE A LIFESAVER! From building forms in HTML (I had never had to do this before), to creating style sheets, to writing java code to manipulating the MySQL database with PHP files, I have found the instructions so clear and easy to use that when I am in a hurry, I can just do stuff. Later, I can go back to the book to understand what I did, how it was actually done, and why it was successfully. When I really take my time, the tutorials are invaluable.

Obviously, I recommend this book. Novices will be led gently by the hand; the more experienced will find better ways of doiing things, and the impatient can get it done quickly. Excellent deal.