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Coding With Javascript For Dummies

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Coding with JavaScript For Dummies provides easy, hands-on instruction for anyone looking to learn this popular client-side language. No experience? No problem! This friendly guide starts from the very beginning and walks you through the basics, then shows you how to apply what you've learned to real projects. You'll start building right away, including web page elements and simple applications, so you can immediately see how JavaScript is used in the real world. ·Getting Started with JavaScript ·Organizing Your JavaScript ·JavaScript on the Web ·Beyond the Basics ·JavaScript and HTML5 ·The Part of Tens About the AuthorChris Minnick is an accomplished author, trainer and web developer who has worked on web and mobile projects for both small and major businesses. Eva Holland is an experienced writer and trainer who has designed and taught online, in-person and video courses. They are cofounders of WatzThis?

368 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 2015

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Profile Image for Angel Serrano.
1,373 reviews12 followers
June 5, 2017
Guía de iniciación a JavaScript, donde las primeras lecciones son bastante sencillas, pero luego se complica rápidamente. Interesantes son los consejos logísticos de cómo programar y ordenar los códigos y la parte de los diez, con recursos disponibles sugeridos.
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36 reviews
May 10, 2022
im currently going through a "hacker" phase (like, to the point i put on a black hoodie just to code) so i'm obsessed with JavaScript- so great book

PS i love how in "readers also enjoyed" is the Lorax-
Profile Image for Leon Kwasi.
24 reviews
March 31, 2019
A great reference book on coding with the Programming language javascript. An easy read and a good pace.
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13 reviews
September 11, 2023
Outdated info but gave me more information about some topics as well as introducing me to future topics that I will study about.
Profile Image for Kyle Christian.
46 reviews6 followers
June 15, 2019
I am new to coding, and I know there is much I have to learn, but from the first exercise in this book I was disappointed. The very first code they have you write is to count to ten.

I spent an hour and half going over every piece of it, and I could not get it to work. I tried it in different code editors, I typed and retyped and retyped and retyped line by line; character by character. At the end of the hour and a half, my typed code was identical, character to character, with what they write as an example, and it never worked.

After a week of trying this, going through several examples, typing my code exactly as it is written in this book has ended in a different result from what they say and claim I should be getting.

Along with this, I had noted several typos which originally I chalked up to simple editing mistakes, however this is becoming inexcusable coupled with my code results differing so greatly from what they claim I should be getting.

As my code was continually not working, I referred back to the Amazon page for this book, and began scrolling through reviews. I wish that I had done this sooner, as I found, buried, several others who complained of the typos and code not working as it should. And while one review mentions there is a website from the authors in which they go through the typos and correct them, I should not have to do this. This book should have been correct in the first place in regards to the coding examples and their results. When these mistakes were brought to the attention of the authors and publisher, that these coding examples are riddled with typos and errors, they should have re-released a corrected book.

I cannot believe I spent money buying this book, and I will not be purchasing another “Coding with ‘X’ for Dummies” since this is the caliber of work they produce.
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