Javascript Annotated Archives

by Jeff Frentzen

Like no other book before, "JavaScript Annotated Archives" gives you the best in expert advice on how, when and why you should implement examples from a powerful collection of ready-to-use code into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0078823641
• ISBN13: 9780078823640
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant - ANSWERS, not just a whole load more questions!

The back cover blurb starts off, "You hold in your hands the most innovative JavaScript programming tool ever created. Like no other book before, ...". At this point my heart started to sink, but it turned out to be true. This is a book who's mission is to explain. The annotated examples are an obvious way of doing just that - but it took a combination of journalists and programmers to actually do it. Bravo! Writers of other books on programming languages, please go out and buy this book. I am a rank beginner when it comes to programming. Being totally naive, I was able to take on a website production job without any real hesitation. After all, how hard can it be? So I started with JS for Dummies (ISBN 0764502239) and got stuck in the wilderness for several days. Annotated Archives saved my bacon. Not that it is a Javascript tutorial, to be used by beginners on its own. But this is the book that tells you why things are done like they are, not just "do them like this, because that's how it is".My wife and I are expecting our fisrt child in a couple of months. If it's a boy, the only question will be whether to name it Jeff, Henry or Dwayne. Enough said.

If you need a script for a page quick, this is the book.

This book is a great reference and a great source for javascripts.

Really great JavaScript resource

I've never seen a format like this before. It's great. You can put these cool scripts to work right away or delve deep into the text to find out how to customize. If you already know the basics of JavaScript this book is alot of fun cause you learn by doing, not by working through a boring tutorial. The book's a great read as well!

A practical walk through to writing real world Javascript

My initial thoughts on the book were: Wow, Cool, Professional Those three words sum the book up very nicely. The book is very professionally laid out, and has a nice quality tome feel to it rather than the sometimes brutal look of general programming guides. Once you get inside, the book is well presented, and well written. The most attractive aspect of the book is that it presents problems, or ideas, and then shows sample code to do it. I really like the structure of getting the full code so you can look through it, and then the nice summary of each section and the sequence flow through the program that you get afterwards. Another nicety is the addition of 'this is how you could expand on this idea' giving optional extras that could be built into your own versions of similar code. I've certainly learnt one or two tricks from the book that I wasn't aware of or hadn't thought of, and it's nuggets like those that make any book worth buying. By tackling the issues by example the authors have successfully written a book that should cater for all tastes. The professionals will use it for ideas, and the beginners will use it to help them learn the language. If you want a good, solid 'learn by example' JavaScript book you couldn't do better.