Review of JavaScript and DOM Scripting by Edward Young
I’m an experienced software developer but unfamiliar with Javascript, and this book was an excellent way to learn through example. It’s also a pretty good reference for javascript and DOM scripting, plus has some good introductory info on XHTML and CSS. I’m also a software engineer who appreciates and relies on good software tooling to help make code projects comprehensible, and manageable. The chapter on how to test and debug Javascript, showed how to install and set up firebug, and then how to use it to examine, execute and debug javascript applications. That chapter alone is worth the price.
This book is both a good how to manual (Nearly all the chapters start with “How to”), but is a great reference, with a 1 page brief contents and then a 10 page detailed table of contents.
This book is also not only a book on learning Javascript and DOM scripting, but also ensures that the reader learns the vital peripheral technologies alike XTHML and CSS, by taking the reader through the development of several interesting and useful applications over it’s 20 chapters.
This is my second Murach book and is also excellent. I highly recommend it.
