JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

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  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Pub. Date: May 2008
  • ISBN-13: 9780596517748
  • Sales Rank: 74,758
  • 153pp
 
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This authoritative book offers a detailed explanation of the features that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language. As a result, this guide defines a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole.

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It's my way or the highwayby Anonymous

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September 23, 2008: That's Crockford's approach to Javascript. I expected more. The examples were poor and he actually defends them by saying you just have to read them carefully. I think the lessons are muddled and if you're familiar with Crockford then you already know most of what's in this book.

Those who can, do, those who can't, teachby Anonymous

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August 16, 2008: Often this is said as if teaching were an accomplishment of less importance and requiring less skill. But whatever skills Crockford has and whatever information/advice he has to share are completely lost in his inability to teach. This book is terse, brief to the point of obscurity, lacking in explanation, and rushing to show quick, poorly documented examples so that everyone will be impressed with his ability to 'do' even though there is no clear exposition on how all the pieces of the examples work. Having worked deeply in JavaScript for well over a decade I have discovered and utilized many of the ideas here (and was happy to find some new ones), but it is unlikely that anyone who wasn't almost continually sumberged in Javascript day-in and day-out for many years would be able to draw anything constructive out of this book.