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Title: Javascript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan ISBN: 1565925211 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69
Rating: 2
Summary: If you've already got the "Definitive Guide", skip this
Comment: I was hoping and expecting that this little book would be the same quick-and-easy reference book that e.g. the "VBScript Pocket Reference" is -- I was sadly disappointed.
Since "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" is by the same author and publisher, I also expected this book to be a (somewhat) boiled-down version of the very thorough JavaScript Reference from that much larger book. I was even more disappointed there.
In a "pocket reference" such as this I want and need nothing more or less than an alphabetical listing of the JavaScript universe. However, this book is divided into numerous chapters that require you to already know what category the thing you seek belongs to. Since there's no index in these little books, it is useless to me as someone who's still learning this stuff. I've set my copy aside and use the "Definitive Guide" exclusively.
Rating: 4
Summary: near perfect, nothing better is currently available
Comment: First off, I'd like to say that I find these pocket reference books absolutely indispensible. They're relatively inexpensive, they contain MOST (if not almost all) of what you need, and they save you the need to carry absolutely HUGE tomes when all you want is just to look something up quickly. If you know HTML and JavaScript, then get this (JavaScript) and the HTML quick references and you'll be able to do almost anything on your own. To nerds, pockets were invented for carrying such useful pocket guides.
The JavaScript pocket ref continues the tradition of indispensible pocket references by O'Reilly. The organisation is good, and the book contains examples and explanations that you wouldn't expect to see in a pocket reference.
Amazingly though, there's no treatment of objects and object oriented programming in JavaScript. Most readers can be expected to know this, but if you're used to programming in C++ and Java, and don't do a lot of JavaScript, it's easy to forget. I think all the missing material on objects could be treated in ONE MORE PAGE. (hint for next edition!)
Otherwise, this is a wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The API guide to know and love
Comment: If you already know how to program and just need to learn the JavaScript syntax this is THE book to get. Can't wait until their SQL Pocket Reference is available!
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Title: HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by Jennifer Niederst ISBN: 0596002963 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: CSS Pocket Reference by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 0596001207 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596000480 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: XML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by Robert Eckstein ISBN: 0596001339 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: PHP Pocket Reference by Rasmus Lerdorf ISBN: 1565927699 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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