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Dart in Action
Summary
Dart in Action introduces Google's Dart language and provides techniques and examples showing how to use it as a viable replacement for Java and JavaScript in browser-based desktop and mobile applications. It begins with a rapid overview of Dart language and tools, including features like interacting with the browser, optional typing, classes, libraries, and concurrency with isolates. After you master the core concepts, you'll move on to running Dart on the server and creating single page HTML5 web applications.
About the Technology
Dart is a web programming language developed by Google. It has modern OO features, just like Java or C#, while keeping JavaScript's dynamic and functional characteristics. Dart applications are "transpiled" to JavaScript, and they run natively in Dart-enabled browsers. With production-quality libraries and tools, Dart operates on both the client and the server for a consistent development process.
About this Book
Dart in Action introduces the Dart language and teaches you to use it in browser-based, desktop, and mobile applications. Not just a language tutorial, this book gets quickly into the nitty-gritty of using Dart. Most questions that pop up while you're reading are answered on the spot! OO newbies will appreciate the gentle pace in the early chapters. Later chapters take a test-first approach and encourage you to try Dart hands-on.
To benefit from this book you'll need experience with HTML and JavaScript?a Java or C# background is helpful but not required.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
About the Author
Chris Buckett builds enterprise-scale web applications. He runs Dartwatch.com and is an active contributor to the dartlang list.
"Includes numerous examples of core language features as well as more advanced HTML5 features." -;From the Foreword by Seth Ladd, Developer Advocate, Google
Table of Contents
Dart in Action introduces Google's Dart language and provides techniques and examples showing how to use it as a viable replacement for Java and JavaScript in browser-based desktop and mobile applications. It begins with a rapid overview of Dart language and tools, including features like interacting with the browser, optional typing, classes, libraries, and concurrency with isolates. After you master the core concepts, you'll move on to running Dart on the server and creating single page HTML5 web applications.
About the Technology
Dart is a web programming language developed by Google. It has modern OO features, just like Java or C#, while keeping JavaScript's dynamic and functional characteristics. Dart applications are "transpiled" to JavaScript, and they run natively in Dart-enabled browsers. With production-quality libraries and tools, Dart operates on both the client and the server for a consistent development process.
About this Book
Dart in Action introduces the Dart language and teaches you to use it in browser-based, desktop, and mobile applications. Not just a language tutorial, this book gets quickly into the nitty-gritty of using Dart. Most questions that pop up while you're reading are answered on the spot! OO newbies will appreciate the gentle pace in the early chapters. Later chapters take a test-first approach and encourage you to try Dart hands-on.
To benefit from this book you'll need experience with HTML and JavaScript?a Java or C# background is helpful but not required.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
About the Author
Chris Buckett builds enterprise-scale web applications. He runs Dartwatch.com and is an active contributor to the dartlang list.
"Includes numerous examples of core language features as well as more advanced HTML5 features." -;From the Foreword by Seth Ladd, Developer Advocate, Google
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424 pages, Paperback
First published December 28, 2012
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February 8, 2013
The most comprehensive look at the Google Dart Programming Language & Platform to date.
Book could have nabbed a 4 star rating (or greater) but a good bit of the code examples given were overly contrived and not representative of real working code. Which is a criticism of the platform in general -- though it be youthful, it still carries a stamp of "for play only" with not much on how to build a *real* live working application in *production*.
Still, this book offers a detailed look at the object model and language intricacies of Dart.
Book could have nabbed a 4 star rating (or greater) but a good bit of the code examples given were overly contrived and not representative of real working code. Which is a criticism of the platform in general -- though it be youthful, it still carries a stamp of "for play only" with not much on how to build a *real* live working application in *production*.
Still, this book offers a detailed look at the object model and language intricacies of Dart.
April 23, 2014
A solid, but not groundbreaking introduction to Dart. It does not assume you know anything about webdev, what in the end makes it a bit boring. Examples are very clear and well documented (with annotations & other stuff), but they are far too simple. Overall, the book presents the basic ideas and Dart syntax, but is missing many critical aspects of every web application and how you can deal with them using Dart. Not a bad book, but far too limited.
November 20, 2020
Já tá muito datado e algumas coisas mudaram bastante mas da para ajudar a começar.
July 8, 2013
Out of date before it hit the stands.
November 8, 2014
Does not cover any subject in depth. Also a bit outdated, but the language is changing so fast that it's hard to keep up. Still a very good introduction.
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