Murach's Javascript and Dom Scripting (book)
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:47 pm
I just finished reading this book, and I must say it is excellent. I went through a couple of different books while learning the basics of Javascript, but most of them presented JS basically in lists and tables, and left any real implementation up to the reader to figure out. Murach was very different. It went far beyond the "lists and tables" method, and even wrote up a fully-functional JS library in almost every chapter, covering everything from event standardization to cookie parsing. You would easily use almost nothing but these libraries for your first several JS projects. And the author breaks down each library to show you how they work and how they can be extended as well, so you are not just handed "little black boxes" to simply use. Each chapter ends with a small project that uses what you learned in common JS tasks.
The only downside I think is that it decided to leave out AJAX coverage, but there are hundreds of books written on that subject. All-in-all, easily a 5/5 book!
The only downside I think is that it decided to leave out AJAX coverage, but there are hundreds of books written on that subject. All-in-all, easily a 5/5 book!