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I will say I’ve read this book all the way through one and a half times, at which point I decided it wasn’t a good book. I’m an experienced programmer new to Ja

I will say I’ve read this book all the way through one and a half times, at which point I decided it wasn’t a good book. I’m an experienced programmer new to JavaScript, so the target market for this book. It is terrible for reading from start to end, and has lot of details and obsolete language features I just didn’t care about. I looked around a bit and found the perfect book for me: Modern JavaScript for the Impatient by Cay S Horstmann. A terrific way to learn JavaScript.

ultrasounder 5y ago
Thanks for Your extensive review on Amazon `This is an exceptionally good book. If you know how to program in some other language, and want to pick up JavaScript, then this is your book. It did an excellent job of explaining everything in a logical order, telling a good story. Read through the 300 or so pages from start to finish and you'll be set to move on the JS web framework of your choice. (The recently updated JavaScript: the Definitive Guide seems the other alternative, but it is 665 pages to wade through.) I especially liked how the author came up with 5 golden rules to follow right up front, such as "avoid automatic type conversion". JavaScript has so many crufty historical flaws, and by following these rules, he doesn't have to explain all the weird historical stuff. That cut out a lot of laborious explanation of things you shouldn't do anyway. The examples were very well chosen. They focused on the important stuff, yet still explained the key gotcha's inherent in the language. Every paragraph seemed to have an important point. It is a shame this is only the 85th most popular JavaScript book (as of now). It deserves to be better known. It is a classic, and perhaps the best computer book I've read since "The Go Programming Language". Highly recommended.`. Will add this to my read-list after I complete WatchAndCode

ultrasounder 5y ago

Thanks for Your extensive review on Amazon `This is an exceptionally good book. If you know how to program in some other language, and want to pick up JavaScript, then this is your book. It did an excellent job of explaining everything in a logical order, telling a good story. Read through the 300 or so pages from start to finish and you'll be set to move on the JS web framework of your choice. (The recently updated JavaScript: the Definitive Guide seems the other alternative, but it is 665 pages to wade through.) I especially liked how the author came up with 5 golden rules to follow right up front, such as "avoid automatic type conversion". JavaScript has so many crufty historical flaws, and by following these rules, he doesn't have to explain all the weird historical stuff. That cut out a lot of laborious explanation of things you shouldn't do anyway. The examples were very well chosen. They focused on the important stuff, yet still explained the key gotcha's inherent in the language. Every paragraph seemed to have an important point. It is a shame this is only the 85th most popular JavaScript book (as of now). It deserves to be better known. It is a classic, and perhaps the best computer book I've read since "The Go Programming Language". Highly recommended.`. Will add this to my read-list after I complete WatchAndCode