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Beginning JavaScript
by Paul Wilton
from Wrox

Features:

• Kindle Book

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Very big book
  Extremely huge book. Great for a blank introduction to the language. Very extremely thorough. Not so much of a quick reference book, but great for learning the basic and advanced commands of JavaScript. It is so big I've had it for a while and still have not finished reading it.. You create a JavaScript quiz throughout the book that tells you how many you got wrong and your score. Great introduction book, it does have advanced stuff at the end of it.

• Its a great book for beginners and helps you grow in the field as it moves on
  Its a great book one I think should always be there even when you have moved on to advanced levels of Java scripting. The language is simple great examples help you put your knowledge at work.

• Beginning JavaScript- a great place to start
  I have experience programming Java, C++, Q-Basic, CSS, HTML, PHP and started to learn JavaScript from free resources on the internet. The problem is that the internet is full of sales pitches and just free code. I wanted to get a good understanding to write my own code. The Beginning JavaScript gave me a great understanding of the basics. The reading was very easy- for someone with programming experience, there was too much of the basic programming info and far too many examples to help understand the... more info

• good overview
  For a beginning JavaScript book, this covers a lot of topics. The trade-off naturally is that some topics aren't covered as thoroughly as they might be. As an example, it only mentions one form of commenting code, with 2 slashes:
  //this comment must fit on one line
  without mentioning comments surrounded by /* and */, as in
  /* this comment can extend over
  * many lines */
  On the other hand, it also covers topics beginning books might omit, like using the free Microsoft Script... more info

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