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CSS, DHTML, and Ajax, Fourth Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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CSS, DHTML, and Ajax, Fourth Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) |
Author: Jason Cranford Teague
Published: 2006-10-27 |
List price: $29.99
Our price: $21.89
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Excellent primer and quick reference
While I have an solid understanding of HTML and server-side development, I needed to get up-to-speed quickly on CSS, DOM scripting, and Ajax. This book has been the perfect primer, explaining the concepts clearly, giving practical code example with explanation, and organizing the information in a very usable format. The writing is concise and informed by the author's experience, without having the cutesy humor so many technical books seem to feel obligated to employ in an effort to make their text more interesting. This is a good read for its content, and the style supports the information presented.
In fact, I came onto Amazon to see what else the author had written, and was somewhat surprised at the lack of reviewer enthusiasm for the book.
This has been the only book I needed to get up to speed on interactive client side programming. The added bonus was that there are basic examples of all the interface tricks I was looking to implement for basic dynamic content, controls, and navigation.
 Buggy
While this book (Fourth Edition) appears to be another quality release from Peachpit, it is unfortunately plagued by typos (rather unusual for this publisher). Code simply will not run properly due to occasional errors (often replicated in both the inline code and the illustrative tables/diagrams) and filenames are frequently incorrect. In addition, the auxillary red spot color is a nice visual break from the typical black text at first but isn't always implemented properly and eventually feels distracting. However, the major concepts and methods are addressed and presented well in the text.
Overall, probably not the best book to start off with from unless you also enjoy debugging the author's code as you go along. I'd wait until a 5th edition corrects all the typographical errors.
Great Book!
This is a great book for learning CSS, DHTML & AJAX. I needed something quick to pick up this language and the book worked perfect.
 A Great Book
A great book for beginners as well as a good reference tool for programmers as well. I bought this book for my 14 year old son who used it to teach himself. He said it was well laid out and has used it quite often.
Good idea, bad execution
I looked through this book at a bookstore before buying and I was impressed with the idea of working through with visual examples about what could be done with different manipulations of code (something that is hard to quickly get on the web with many many clicks).
In using this guide, I have though become frequently exasperated by the execution because of confusing examples, what I believe to be mistakes in the code examples in the text, etc...
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