Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gregor Kofler Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: What's a good Javascript book? Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:55:20 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <07m878hfvvcfc4s94lg4vldeup5h7uqs4v@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f2130e414e0c7dd2085255f855280308"; logging-data="27943"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kLQ4+dzAgAp35gAswCZ+wqpiK35WyDLc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: <07m878hfvvcfc4s94lg4vldeup5h7uqs4v@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:9MJJbaXvOV7CfTKjgMjl9L/mkgo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:16510 Am 2012-10-09 19:06, Gene Wirchenko meinte: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:43:47 +0200, Gregor Kofler > wrote: > >> Am 2012-10-09 15:19, schrieb I Am Here: >>> Thanks guys, for all the replies. Count on me as a new addition to this group :) >>> >>> The 3 books I have are "Javascript Cookbook", "Sams Teach Yourself Javascript in 24 hours" and one called "HTML, XHTML, CSS and Javascript" which is absolutely useless. Also, I recently bought "Supercharged Javascript Graphics" where I can't follow the code, which is what brought me to this group. >>> >>> Yes, it's the referring to object properties as array subscripts that I find confusing, but also as colon separated items inside a {} block. I'll post more on this when my head clears up a little, I've got a slight fever at the moment, and I just can't stay at the computer too long :) >>> >>> Anyway, a little introduction telling me which country each of you are from would be nice to start with :) Me, I'm Indian. >> >> The titles indicate that the content of these books *must* be utter crap. > > "*must*"? Well... yes. "JavaScript Cookbook" - recipes for problems the author seems worth writing about. "Teach Yourself JS in 24 Hours" - makes me wonder, why "I am here" is here (in this NG). "HTML, XHTML, CSS and Javascript" - PHP, Apache, MySQL and Python is missing... (I miss the "Way of the JavaScript Ninja" or whatever it was called.) > Jo(e) Author writes the definitive JavaScript book. The > publisher gives it a title you do not like. Hmm. Joe Author should be man enough to get the title he or she seems appropriate. >> So far Crockford's "JS The Good Parts" has been the only JS book I found >> worth reading. > > After not trusting books bacause of titles, you trust a book with > "crock" in the author's name? If you are going to be bigoted, please > be consistent about it. The title is fitting. I don't care about author's names. Gregor