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Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction To Programming (2011)

by Marijn Haverbeke(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1593272820 (ISBN13: 9781593272821)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

No Starch Press

review 1: This book brought me back to JavaScript before there were any frameworks like jQuery. It made me realize that I had fallen victim to treating the language as a sub-species joining others who complained it was a bastard child language as they bastardized it. Technically I am still reading this because I will always be reading this. The explanations and examples about function based scope and how to use it still blow my mind. The author shows us how powerful JavaScript truly is and I use ideas and patterns taught here everyday in my work.
review 2: I'm sure those fancy JS wranglers out there will get a lot out of this book, but if you're a coding newbie, look elsewhere for your intro, far far elsewhere. I made the mistake of thinking I'd use this book to help sup... moreplement my learning of JS. And what a mistake. It gave no practical help whatsoever. The dude's a fine writer, I'll give him that, and obviously a gifted coder, but his book wasn't written for the novice. This is not his intention with this book and if you're approaching it that way, you've got some pain in store for ya. This book is for people who know JS and want to improve their code by simplifying it. That and nothing else. less

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