Re: n00b considering Java Script

From	Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: n00b considering Java Script
Date	2016-09-30 03:14 +0000
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Andreas Bergmaier wrote:
> Scott Sauyet wrote:
> 
>> The undoubted best reference guide is David Flanagan's _JavaScript: The
>> Definitive Guide_.
> 
> Actually I was quite disappointed when I got my hands on it. Maybe it
> was just an old edition, but it did describe in detail APIs that are
> completely outdated now and gave examples that would be considered a bad
> practice today.
> 
> When looking for a reference guide, MDN
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web> rarely fails me (though
> it does occasionally contain mistakes, being a wiki). It's not a printed
> reference of course, but I'd question the usefulness of such anyway in a
> world with fast-moving standards.

Absolutely.

I should have said "the best printed reference guide".

There are numerous mistakes in both the decisions of what to include and 
and to exclude and in details.  But it gets closer than any of the 
handful of other books I've read that also try to be JS reference guides.

But it doesn't come close to MDN in scope or in accuracy, and usually not 
even in readability.

  -- Scott

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      Re: n00b considering Java Script Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2016-09-26 23:10 +0200
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    Re: n00b considering Java Script Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-26 01:00 +0000
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