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JavaScript Sourcebook: Create Interactive JavaScript Programs for the World Wide Web

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Average Customer Rating: 2.9

Customer Rating: 2
Summary: Outdated and Inconsistant with Few Examples
Comment: First and most important, the book is outdated. The author even expresses this on his web site gmccomb.com/javascript/ and recommends the "JavaScript Bible" as an updated alternative to his own book. JavaScript Sourcebook is mostly based on Netscape Navigator 3.0.

Further, I agree with other review comments about inconsistancies and not having loads of JavaScript source code examples that I would expect from a title of "Sourcebook".

One example of being inconsistant, on page 65 the author says "Despite popular belief, Java is not based on either C or C++.", then later on page 71 he states "Java is based on the C++ programming language and deeply embraces object-oriented programming precepts."

Customer Rating: 2
Summary: Buggy examples
Comment: The source code has lots of bugs, and generally uses mediocre software engineering practices.

The provided CD examples (when zipped) would fit on a 1.44 floppy, so don't get your hopes up that there are lots of examples.

Customer Rating: 2
Summary: JavaScript Source(of Madness)book
Comment: This book would have been nice to keep on my bookshelf. But, at the very beginning I could see the inconsistencies of the programming examples. It drove me mad. So, I had to return it.