Laura Lemay's Web Workshop--JavaScript

by Laura Lemay and Michael G. Moncur

Designed for the user who is familiar with HTML and now wishes to further develop their Web pages, this manual provides a guide to creating web pages with forms, databases, and animation, through CGI... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575211416
• ISBN13: 9781575211411
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

My Programming Bible

Talk about an investment. I got this book for like thirty bucks and with the knowledge it provided I was able to more than double my salary in two years. Although some aggressive negotiating is still involved, in the end I still have to know my stuff and this book has provided me with it. Clear and easy to follow examples given throughout. When you built a solid foundation, go to the web for more updated information.

Very good for those w/some or little programming experience

Don't listen to all the bad reviews. Those people either don't know how to program, or they don't realize that the code samples in the book are incomplete. I read this book and found it to be very useful for my needs. I am only a beginning programmer using Java and advanced using HTML (although you can hardly call HTML a programming language, any fool can create a web page). Prior experience has helped a great deal. Object oriented and object based languages are not for beginners. Get some experience under your belt before trying to learn these kind of languages on your own. Once you have that, this book will be an excellent resource.

A very good introduction and useful reference

This book was sufficient for me to get going with a language that is structured very differently from the traditional languages that I learned back in the dark ages. It's not designed as a comprehensive reference, although I've been using it as my sole Javascript reference for the past year. Rather, it teaches by having the reader learn to create building-blocks -- sections of code that will accomplish something useful -- and then goes on to show how to integrate those into larger projects. I didn't actually find the larger projects useful in and of themselves, but as examples of good Javascript code they were worth reading through.I read about half of the book straight through, and then started skipping around as I needed to learn specific techniques. It works adequately that way, but in fact it is so full of little tricks -- some of which aren't even presented as such, but are just built into the examples -- that it will really repay anyone with the discipline to read it straight through. (I looked at a script used by the Adobe site that I wanted to emulate, but thought it looked kludgy and there MUST be a better way to do it. I spent several hours experimenting with document objects and attributes before finding the answer. Then in browsing Lemay's book for something else, I stumbled across the exact same technique being used in one of her examples. If only I had sat down and read that chapter earlier!)The one shortcoming with the book, and the only reason I'm going to knock my rating down to four stars instead of five, is that the reference sections on document objects and properties should be more complete.Randy Steer

A bit dated, but good.

I was a bit disappointed that this book doesn't cover netscape 4 stuff (publish in 1996) but I was able to learn what I needed. There are some nasty typos (first script in the book needed fixed to work) but the more advanced applets worked fine.