Javascript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford

Book Overview

Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole--a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code. Considered the JavaScript expert by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596517742
• ISBN13: 9780596517748
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Yahoo Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Short yet thorough and informative book

It’s only 150 pages but it goes through the major parts of the language in a thorough manor. In the process, the author (who happens to be the man behind JSON) explicates his own clean style of JavaScript. It’s short but terse, using a flowchart to explain some of the syntax, so I wouldn’t try to skim through it.