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JavaScript: The Missing Manual

por David Sawyer McFarland

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JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual, you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without pain or frustration -- even if you have little or no programming experience. JavaScript expert David McFarland first teaches you the basics by having you build a simple program. Then you'll learn how to work with jQuery, a popular library of pre-built JavaScript components that's free and easy to use. With jQuery… (mais)
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Long, long ago, in a country far away, I attempted to teach myself JavaScript. I wasn’t really sure why I was doing it and that’s probably why I never finished the book. It may also be because it was written the way most computer tutorial books are written: badly.

I’m a teacher and that means I thing or two about how to get people to learn new skills. Many’s the time I’ve wanted to grab an author of a computer book by the mouse balls and smash them in the face with a keyboard. I mean, these people are supposed to be good at logic, right? If so, why does their writing seem so completely illogical. Websites written to “help” you do technical stuff are pretty much the same. Usually, these begin something like this; “This book/website/blog post is written for absolute beginners…” That’s the point at which you should simply turn away and cry. I usually make it to, oooh, about the third paragraph. By that point, I can’t see any logical connection between the points the writer is making. I’m lost. I give up.

But McFarland’s intro to JavaScript, is exactly the kind of book that bucks this trend and that’s why I liked it… a lot.

Not only does he write in a simple and engaging style, his writing actually makes sense. There wasn’t a single point in this 500+ page book where I felt I’d lost the plot. I followed it the entire way through. That in itself would be enough, but there’s more. He doesn’t have you build some completely meaningless website or project as you go. This really irritates me because I have no desire to create an animated rock or a site that processes sales for a sports company. In case you thought I made those up, they were examples in other books I also looked at.

Instead, he takes you through simple examples and tutorials which are designed specifically for the task you are applying them to. What I really liked about the tutorials was that at each stage, he explains why you have to do what you’re being asked to do and reminds you of earlier sections in the book where these aspects were covered. In fact, the entire book is filled with cross-referencing which means that if on page 482 you have find yourself a victim of your own humanity and can’t remember what was discussed on page 145, he’ll remind you of it. This is just one example of the way McFarland shows that he has a good understanding of who he’s writing for.

And he’s comprehensive. There’s plenty of Ajax in here along with regular expressions, JSON and JQuery. In fact, there’s so much JQuery that the new edition is called JavaScript & JQuery. If you already know HTML and want to take it further, this is an excellent resource to do that with. I’d just recommend you pick up an edition more recent than the 2008 one I was working with. ( )
  arukiyomi | Mar 29, 2013 |
Really the only problem with this book is that the contents don't correspond to the title. It's a pretty good cookbook, covering a bit of Javascript, quite a lot of the jQuery javascript library, and a few examples using jQuery to do Ajax -- you can do a lot with jQuery using just the information in this book. As a cookbook, I probably would have given it four or four and a half stars. While the author explains how to run the examples, I would have liked to have seen some more explanation of the code.

As a manual, however, the book isn't very good at all. It certainly isn't a Javascript manual, since most of the examples rely on jQuery, not pure Javascript. And it really isn't a jQuery manual. This book covers a lot of jQuery, but unless there's less to it than meets the eye, the book doesn't cover everything there is to know.

So the real "Javascript Missing Manual" is still missing in action. Sorry, couldn't resist. ( )
  GraemeW | May 22, 2009 |
Good manual for non-programmers
  israelcsus | Feb 24, 2009 |
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JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual, you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without pain or frustration -- even if you have little or no programming experience. JavaScript expert David McFarland first teaches you the basics by having you build a simple program. Then you'll learn how to work with jQuery, a popular library of pre-built JavaScript components that's free and easy to use. With jQuery

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