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| From | Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: What's a good Javascript book? |
| Date | 2012-10-09 13:40 -0700 |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:43:20 -0700 (PDT), Scott Sauyet
<scott.sauyet@gmail.com> wrote:
>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> Gregor Kofler wrote:
>>> schrieb I Am Here:
>
>>>> 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.
>>>> [ ... ]
>
>>> The titles indicate that the content of these books *must* be utter crap.
>>
>> "*must*"?
>
>No, of course not, but we're all entitled to some minor hyperbole, no?
When it is advice on the very area, it makes the advice much less
valuable.
>> Jo(e) Author writes the definitive JavaScript book. The
>> publisher gives it a title you do not like. Hmm.
[snipped argument that I could write]
>So perhaps you shouldn't judge a book by its cover -- or its title --
>but if the author and/or publishers have buried the worthwhile content
>behind a misleading title, I don't feel too bad about overlooking it
>until further evidence is unearthed.
I quite agree. Let me add "for Dummies" books to the list.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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