JavaScript Application Cookbook
JavaScript Application Cookbook by Jerry Bradenbaugh
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 478
- ISBN:
- 1565925777
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Publication Date:
- Oct. 11, 1999
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 271
A programming cookbook is usually a collection of small (but perfectly formed and debugged) components you can mix and match to create your own applications. By this definition, Javascript Application Cookbook is a misnomer. This is actually a collection of 11 completely worked-out client-side Javascript applications including a search engine, Web based tests, slideshow, simple ciphers, shopping cart and so on--all useful stuff.
It assumes the reader has a good grounding in Javascript--certainly enough to follow the code. The explanations that follow each application are mainly high-level overviews of the operation of the component parts of each application.
If you want to learn Javascript, you might be better off with a book on the Javascript language and a standard reference on programming algorithms. Jerry Bradenhaugh clearly knows his stuff, however, and if you need a lot of examples showing effective ways to construct large client-side Javascript applications then the Javascript Application Cookbook will be useful. --Steve Patient
Reviews for JavaScript Application Cookbook
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good - if you know JS already
Rated out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2004
this book [like all o'reilly books] is as comprehensive as you can get. but like a lot of o'reilly books, it pretty much plunges you in at the deep-end. i dunno whether it's just because JS is intrinsically less forgiving than other languages, but i found that i spent an inordinate amount of time trying to adapt the scripts in this book to my needs [and squish bugs], compared to other similar books for languages such as PHP and actionscript. have o'reilly 'lost their touch' on this one, or is JS just an unforgiving language? - i'm still not really sure. -
Learn to breathe life into your web sites
Rated out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2000
If you want a book to teach you how to program, then go elsewhere. However, if you want to unleash the power of Javascript on your web-site then buy this. You mention Javascript and most people will probably think fancy graphical effects and the like. This takes the language one step further and shows you how to build useful applications, explaining all code stage by stage. Its amazing how much I've learnt in a week, and each program can be easily adapted. If you want to do cool things with Javascript then get this, if you want to know about naming conventions and object oriented design, then buy Javascript for nerds or something. -
Thank you, thank you, thank you....
Rated out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2000
I bought this book because I wanted to get into the development of websites. We all hear the jargon being batted around.....and high in that list comes "javascript"...I bought a reference which is great, "javascript - the definative guide", also from O'reilly..but this shows how to do REAL things on your site. It is hard going at first, but very quickly helps you pick up speed...another excellent piece of work from O'reilly....BUY THE BOOK, you will not regret it! -
Mildly interesting, but not worth the cover price
Rated out of 5 stars, February 12st, 2000
Some interesting bits, but the author appears to have no understanding of good coding practice. Elementary ideas like data name integrity are alien to him, and as for object-orientated techniques... The code is unstructured and inconsistent - which might explain his unfortunate bias in favour of Internet Explorer's DOM. -
Bloody Good!!!
Rated out of 5 stars, November 12th, 1999
Beg, borrow, or even steal but do what you can to buy this book!!! JavaScript Cookbook is by far is the best written book on JavaScript in the O'Reilly series, knowing this owning the previous 3 JavaScript books published by O'Reilly - JavaScript The Definitive Guide - Designing With JavaScript and DHTML The Definitive Reference. This one takes the advanced programmers and teaches then even more. However this book is not for the beginners out there. For it has no reference to the language and expects you to know how to use the language. If you need to buy anything, buy this... ...NOW!!!