File Size: 60622 KB
Print Length: 1048 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning; '002 edition (December 16, 2009)
Publication Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
ASIN: B00B8OL9R0
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I am required to use this for a college class, as it is more convenient for them than developing their own course. Every negative thing written here on is true.This book is extremely poorly written and should have NEVER been published. It needs about 400 pages of drivel edited out of it. The Drivel includes idiotic asides and pages of irrelevant case history babble, which have nothing to do with solving the problems. It's only purpose seems to be to indulge the author, whose grasp on the English language is about as impressive as his inability to gauge his audience. One must work very hard to unearth any of the real content out of the dense wordy nonsense in this book.Unfortunately, colleges are using this as a beginning JavaScript book but if author wrote it with an audience in mind (and that is doubtful), it would be for advanced programmers as it jumps right into advanced programming concepts from the start.These advanced concepts (used at the beginning), are covered in the latter half of any other JavaScript books I have read. The annoying thing is that he jumps into advanced programming without bothering to explain the basics: the syntax and the structure of the language.It has multiple coding typos which unnecessarily wasted hours of my time. Don't bother trying to find them on the Cengage website. Errata doesn't matter to this irresponsible publisher.Author does talk about JavaScript in the text but it is so buried in disorganized verbage that it's extremely difficult to pick out the concepts.Yes, I'll get an A in it because, I, like others, can sit for hours and copy code. But I haven't gotten a single thing out of it. I'm reading two other books that actually instruct rather than obscure information.
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