JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
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Book Summary Author: David Flanagan Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2006-08-24 ISBN: 0596101996 Number of pages: 1032 Publisher: O'Reilly Media |
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Book Reviews of the JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Customer Review: Too much paper, not enough knowledge.
Summary: 2 Stars
For a book which calls itself "the definitive guide" I was hoping for a much longer and more lucid explanation of OOP in Javascript, prototypes and patterns of how to use them. Prototypes are a key part of Javascript but this is an OOP construct different from the class paradigm familiar to most developers. In a book of 990 pages you'd think that more then a cursory 30 pages would be warranted to explain such a key concept. Having read this section about three times now I think the author simply does not have a deep understanding of this key concept and how important it is to learning this language. The examples in this section even though they are short are far from self-explanatory since they
use the exact language magic they are trying to explain. Also there are no diagrams of any sort and they would have really helped here.
Also in a 990 page book you'd think a this is how javascript is different from major languages table (at least Java...)
Btw this book is thick and heavy! Definitely not for dropping into the briefcase for casual reading on the train.
Since this is relevant to the perspective on a tech book: I have a CS education and 20 years dev experience.