A good hands on book for JavaScript

[jamiil]

Does any know what book/website would be good for me, an middle-
beginner, if what I'm looking for is a hands-on, example-loaded
reference book/website? More specifically, what I am looking for is
for something that will show me how to do things and not just tell me
what things can be done with JavaScript.

Thanks folks!

 

[rickcasey]

Does any know what book/website would be good for me, an middle-
beginner, if what I'm looking for is a hands-on, example-loaded
reference book/website? More specifically, what I am looking for is
for something that will show me how to do things and not just tell me
what things can be done with JavaScript.

Thanks folks!

Best book I've seen personally (no claim to "gurudom"!) is Danny
Goodman's "Javascript & DHTML Cookbook". He's been around forever, and
the book is chock full of code examples, which I've used frequently to
solve tough web GUI problems at work. Check it out at www.dannyg.com...

--rick

 

[Hal Rosser]

Does any know what book/website would be good for me, an middle-
beginner, if what I'm looking for is a hands-on, example-loaded
reference book/website? More specifically, what I am looking for is
for something that will show me how to do things and not just tell me
what things can be done with JavaScript.

Thanks folks!

Here is a decent tutorial site:
www.w3schools.com
and for a reference
http://devguru.com
The 'regulars' on this newsgroup will expose many flaws at both sites, but
you can at least read and learn without being flamed at those web sites.
Then of course read the 'faqs' for this website, even with the flames, there
are some decent folks here

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected].

Here is a decent tutorial site:
www.w3schools.com
and for a reference
http://devguru.com
The 'regulars' on this newsgroup will expose many flaws at both sites, but
you can at least read and learn without being flamed at those web sites.
Then of course read the 'faqs' for this website, even with the flames, there
are some decent folks here

But this is not a website; and it's extremely rate for those who read
and learn here to be flamed, unless they also write.



The devguru site has a run-time error in the first page, which tends to
destroy confidence - and four or five in the first javascript page - and
the Date page has the usual error in all but one of the possible places
- and it says getFullYear returns a four-digit year - and it says new
Date() gives today's date - ...

While it correctly determines the number of milliseconds to the next
millennium, it does not consider the possible effect of Summer Time in
converting that to days. It will therefore be wrong, even in most of
the country it's written for, for an hour each day in Summer; and ISTM
for a different hour each day in much of Australia in Winter.

And www.w3schools.com is similar, except for lacking the example and its
errors, and the place where devguru was right.

 

[Hal Rosser]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected].
net>, Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:43:49, Hal Rosser <[email protected]>
posted:
The devguru site has a run-time error in the first page, which tends to
destroy confidence - and four or five in the first javascript page - and
the Date page has the usual error in all but one of the possible places
- and it says getFullYear returns a four-digit year - and it says new
Date() gives today's date - ...

While it correctly determines the number of milliseconds to the next
millennium, it does not consider the possible effect of Summer Time in
converting that to days. It will therefore be wrong, even in most of
the country it's written for, for an hour each day in Summer; and ISTM
for a different hour each day in much of Australia in Winter.

And www.w3schools.com is similar, except for lacking the example and its
errors, and the place where devguru was right.

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To the OP
See - I told ya they would point out those flaws.

 

[Peter Michaux]

Does any know what book/website would be good for me, an middle-
beginner, if what I'm looking for is a hands-on, example-loaded
reference book/website? More specifically, what I am looking for is
for something that will show me how to do things and not just tell me
what things can be done with JavaScript.

Thanks folks!

Can anyone recommend a good starting tutorial for Javascript? Basically I
want to learn enough of Javascript so that I can work with Google Maps API
(http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/). Thanks

I think this link should help...

<URL: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/04a7a303c2e67280>

Flanagan's book is the book to have. It is mentioned in the group faq

<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ3_1>

Watch out for errata.

The only other books I would consider are the new Apress book written
by Resig and the Wrox books by Zakas based on the author reputations.

You can watch all the videos here <URL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/>

I think the Crockford videos are great and so is crockford.com. I
don't use his style of JavaScript OOP but he seems to like it.

This newsgroup is the highest quality source of advice. I've learned a
lot!

Peter

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

jamiil said the following on 6/4/2007 12:47 PM:

The best way to answer that question is to tell you to check the group
FAQ as that very question is asked/answered in the FAQ.

Although the formal spec is sufficiently mentioned in the FAQ for those
who are seeking it; ISTM that it could be useful to add to FAQ section
3.1 - no, to 3 before 3.1 - something along the lines of :-

Books and Web sites are rarely 100% reliable. It may, therefore, be wise
to refer in parallel to the formal specification _Sec 2.6_ and compare
details.




The final word of se3ction 2.8 could be spelt better.



Is there a Web description of the Date Object along the lines of those
commonly seen, but free of errors and omissions? I mean those made up
like

getFullYear
Returns the year of the specified date according to local time.

getHours
Returns the hour in the specified date according to local time.

getMilliseconds
Returns the milliseconds in the specified date according to local time.

and omissions like not indicating what setYear(9) does.