JavaScript for the World Wide Web

by Ted Gesing and Jeremy Schneider

Book Overview

JavaScript is designed to be used in conjunction with HTML. It goes further than the tagging functions performed by HTML. This guide to the JavaScript language is aimed at both users without a strong... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020168814X
• ISBN13: 9780201688146
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

This is a great intro to Javascript, but it is not for everyone. If you like to learn to program by reading books, or if you like those 1000 page volumes, then this is not the book for you. But if you learn by doing, and you want to start coding Javascript NOW, then get this book.

Excellent How to Guide for Programmers

I was sorry to see some of the reviews that gave only 2's and 3's. This book is much better than that. If you are tired of reading the books with all the theory and want one with just examples of how to do particular things then this is the book for you. The examples that I tried in this book worked and it covered issues that I need to know like "How do you trap the value and text out of a combo box?". I would not say this book is for the beginner but there are dozens of useless Javascript books for that (ie Learn Javascript in a Week). Overall thought I think that this book is solid and you cant beat the price

buy it

Often you want a quick review of a concept that you want to utilize JavaScript for without having to wade through some lone tome on the subject. One such reference that offers JavaScript for every occasion is Ted Gesing and Jeremy Schneider's "JavaScript For the World Wide Web" It uses script examples employing red colored text within the script for highlighting the exact topic under discussion. We rate it high for a quick reference to JavaScript covering everything from the object model (in an easy to understand model) to frames and array handling. If you deal with JavaScript regularly you will certainly find this 175 page well indexed reference guide, a handy book you will use over and over again. We at Cut and Paste JavaScript give it a 9. Buy it. JJB

Easy-to-follow JavaScript Helper!

I went to the bookstore to find a JavaScript book, and there were about two dozen there. I was looking around, and I see this book. I pick it up to humor myself, and I see that it's GOOD! It had everything I needed and it showed me how it worked visually. Why can't more programming books be like this one? If you want to learn JavaScript, or if you have a little knowledge of JavaScript and you want to go further, this book is the perfect solution

The essential guide to useful JavaScript

With this book, I was able to understand, learn, and program in JavaScript in one weekend. Other JavaScript books look and read like an dictionary--useful only if you like to learn foreign languages by reading a dictionary. Not this one. To continue with the analogy, it presents most (if not every) basic situations a person would encounter in learning a new language, shows what to say, and then goes that step further which is what makes this book such a treasure: It explains WHY it is said that way. No other book that I know, either for programming or design, has been so well laid-out--exceptionally so even for the Visual QuickStart series. Organized by functionality (as opposed to "lessons" or "vocabulary/defintions") it allows me to go back and forth, pick what I want, and adapt it to my needs. If you want to learn JavaScript, this is THE book to buy.