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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596517748
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596517742
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 170
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 2929
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables. When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including: Syntax Objects Functions Inheritance Arrays Regular expressions Methods Style Beautiful features
The real beauty? As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts. Of course, if you want to find out more about the bad parts and how to use them badly, simply consult any other JavaScript book. With JavaScript: The Good Parts, you'll discover a beautiful, elegant, lightweight and highlyexpressive language that lets you create effective code, whether you're managing object libraries or just trying to get Ajax to run fast. If you develop sites or applications for the Web, this book is an absolute must.
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Rating:  - At Long Last, A Serious Javascript Book
For about as long as it's been about, Javascript has endured a plague of poorly written and presented books. "A Million and One Ways to Write a Rollover." Many books will treat writing a function as an advanced move. It is left as an exercise for the reader how to manage ones code when the scale surpasses the trivial.
Douglas Crockford, who works at Yahoo, is unable to leave these questions in the realm of the intellectual, and he is in growing company. The era of large Javascript applications ... Read More
Rating: - Not a beginner's book, but
This is not a book for non-programmers or people new to the field. It is a very dense yet approachable review of the very succinct and elegant language inside of what commonly is thought of as JavaScript. Highly recommended if you have previously thought negative things about JavaScript and want to improve you JavaScript skills, especially for those who favor elegant code.
Rating: - Excellent Resource for JavaScript
I'll keep this short and sweet (like the book). This book distills the JavaScript language down to the bare essentials that a programmer will need to write clean, powerful code. It even tells you what to avoid along the way. Douglas Crockford takes a veritable pig of a language and turns it into delicious ham, bacon, and chops.
For someone serious about JavaScript, there are two books to own. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide to learn the language and its syntax (in minute detail), and this book, ... Read More
Rating: - A Great JavaScript Book for Everybody
This is the first book by Douglas Crockford a Senior Software Archtitect at Yahoo.He is widely known as one of the most knowledgeable on JavaScript apart from the creater of JavaScript (Brendan Eich).Douglas Crockford is the creator of JSON and has written many articles and presentations on JavaScript-related topics in web development.
His book JavaScript: the Good Parts, is a short (145 pages including Appendix) but is very useful for the person who wants to expand his/her JavaScript skills ... Read More
Rating:  - some value - because it's cheap
it's amazing that many great people don't know how to teach...somebody who loves this language so much to write so little and not explaining and providing examples......
The same thing you could find online.....
Don't take me wrong, you will learn a thing or two, but that's not the point.
So called diagrams or flow, whatever they are, they are totally useless.
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