JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Good Parts
Book Review: Beautiful book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a beautiful book.
First of all - at only 170 pages it is short. Even though some of the key points are repeated through the book it's dense with information. You don't need any JavaScript experience, but it's not a "beginning programming" book so if you haven't been programming before this is not the right book for you.
Reading this book a couple of times will give you an appreciation for the JavaScript language that you almost certainly didn't have before. It'll give you tools to write better programs that you and others will actually be able to maintain over time.
I've learned lots of little things that I maybe knew from experience, but now I _know_ and I know why.
This book will help you battle with JavaScript rather than against it.
Book Review: A great introduction to JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book because I needed to learn JavaScript for a specific project I was given.
JavaScript: The Good Parts is great at describing the great features in JavaScript and what 'features' aren't worth the pain they'll put you through. This book is not a JavaScript reference book.
It provides a framework for building JavaScript applications that avoid common problems. The author describes avoiding problems with global variables (by wrapping them in an object or function), inheritance, and other small but important pitfalls.
I'm definately satisfied with the purchase. My biggest wish is that it was longer and more in-depth, as it's obvious the author has a lot more great JavaScript advice to impart.
Book Review: JavaScript the way it should be...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is concise. This book isn't for someone that is picking up a programming for the first time. If you are not familiar with programming at all and are looking for a book to help you spice up your website, I wouldn't recommend this book - at all. However at the same token, I would say that eventually you will need to read this book - at least once. The audience for this book is for those "classically trained" (though I don't like to use this term). If you're familiar with OO design principles etc and plan on trying your hand at JavaScript this book is for you. If you've never read this and jumped right into JavaScript thinking its just like any other language say... a mix of ( VB and Java ), this book is also for you.Book Review: Answering the WHYs in JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
Douglas Crockford is well known for all his work in JavaScript,including numerous articles, tools, and presentations. Over time he has helped define important concepts in JavaScript, such as style, patterns, pitfalls, and generally how to write clear and maintainable JavaScript code.
This book encapsulates a lot of that. A lot of great advice is packed in this short and sweet book. It is also a pleasure to read to boot.
This is not a JavaScript reference book, but instead it is an honest overview of the language features, including the bad stuff that we need to stay clear off.
I'd recommend this book to anyone that thinks JavaScript is just another curly-brace based language.
Book Review: Serious JavaScript programming requires strong discipline
Summary: 5 Stars
Serious JavaScript programming requires strong discipline to avoid many pitfalls that are somewhat encouraged by the language itself. The author is very aware of this problem and wrote a small, but very dense book, full of useful advices that comes from somebody who has doing sophisticated JavaScript programming for a long time. Crockford is very opinionated, and I don't always agree 100% with his suggestions, nevertheless, even whenever I disagree, I find his points are worth reading, his opinion is always valuable. This book would serve well both veteran JavaScript developers and programmers that, coming from different languages, may get lost among JavaScript's idiosyncrasies.