JavaScript: The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Good Parts
Book Review: A great introduction to JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book because I needed to learn JavaScript for a specific project I was given.
JavaScript: The Good Parts is great at describing the great features in JavaScript and what 'features' aren't worth the pain they'll put you through. This book is not a JavaScript reference book.
It provides a framework for building JavaScript applications that avoid common problems. The author describes avoiding problems with global variables (by wrapping them in an object or function), inheritance, and other small but important pitfalls.
I'm definately satisfied with the purchase. My biggest wish is that it was longer and more in-depth, as it's obvious the author has a lot more great JavaScript advice to impart.
Book Review: JavaScript the way it should be...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is concise. This book isn't for someone that is picking up a programming for the first time. If you are not familiar with programming at all and are looking for a book to help you spice up your website, I wouldn't recommend this book - at all. However at the same token, I would say that eventually you will need to read this book - at least once. The audience for this book is for those "classically trained" (though I don't like to use this term). If you're familiar with OO design principles etc and plan on trying your hand at JavaScript this book is for you. If you've never read this and jumped right into JavaScript thinking its just like any other language say... a mix of ( VB and Java ), this book is also for you.Book Review: Answering the WHYs in JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
Douglas Crockford is well known for all his work in JavaScript,including numerous articles, tools, and presentations. Over time he has helped define important concepts in JavaScript, such as style, patterns, pitfalls, and generally how to write clear and maintainable JavaScript code.
This book encapsulates a lot of that. A lot of great advice is packed in this short and sweet book. It is also a pleasure to read to boot.
This is not a JavaScript reference book, but instead it is an honest overview of the language features, including the bad stuff that we need to stay clear off.
I'd recommend this book to anyone that thinks JavaScript is just another curly-brace based language.
Book Review: Well written and knowledgeable
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good book so far. The author takes the view that Javascript is not really a great language, but we're stuck with it, which is how I feel. It's not really a good book for learning Javascript if you've never seen it before. He uses functional diagrams for the syntax definitions of all the constructs, which, while being a good concise, complete definition, are less easy to read and understand than a few examples. But the book is basically supposed to be a pitfalls, tips & tricks, sort of thing, and for that I'd say it's good. He writes clearly, and seems very knowledgeable about the language and language theory in general. He's a little full of himself, but most programmers are.Book Review: Serious JavaScript programming requires strong discipline
Summary: 5 Stars
Serious JavaScript programming requires strong discipline to avoid many pitfalls that are somewhat encouraged by the language itself. The author is very aware of this problem and wrote a small, but very dense book, full of useful advices that comes from somebody who has doing sophisticated JavaScript programming for a long time. Crockford is very opinionated, and I don't always agree 100% with his suggestions, nevertheless, even whenever I disagree, I find his points are worth reading, his opinion is always valuable. This book would serve well both veteran JavaScript developers and programmers that, coming from different languages, may get lost among JavaScript's idiosyncrasies.