Reviews for How To Do Everything with JavaScript

1. A VERY POOR TEACHER

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2008

   I would rate this as probably the poorest computer programming teaching book I have ever read. What you learn from a book is very much dependent on the ability and circumstances of the individual. This book however recommends this book as suitable for someone who can use a computer , an Internet browser and some knowledge of HTML would be useful. With that sort of recommendation, this book should have been straightforward for myself; starting from a point of a good working knowledge of C++: although my knowledge of HTML is a bit minimal . With a good working knowledge of C++ I pretty well breezed through the first half of the book. When the book started on the more advanced Javascript; I ran into a brick wall and quickly realised how poor the book was at teaching any aspect from scratch. What authors of this type of book fail to realise is that if you already have a good working knowledge of a subject, why would you need to buy a book. If you have covered most of the concepts and principles in other languages ; then you will find this book fairly straightforward. If however you fit the author's description of who should read this book; then you will probably learn next-to-nothing.