I had the misfortune of purchasing this textbook to refresh my JavaScript skills. Well, it's all here... the deprecated tags, the outdated syntax, and the errors... OH MY GOD!!! You will also find that the end of chapter exercises incorporate knowledge and features that were NOT EVEN COVERED in the preceding chapters!! Because I already knew JavaScript, I was able to ferret my way through this atrocious text. So it wasn't a total loss. This textbook is used at our local technical college, so I thought I was safe in purchasing it. Do NOT buy this book unless you know enough of JavaScript and HTML to make the corrections yourself. This is the second Shelly Cashman Series textbook that I've had the misfortune to purchase. From what I've seen, the Shelly Cashman Series is probably one of the worst I've ever encountered in the computer field.

This book has some coding errors in it, but nothing I wasn't able to work around. If it wasn't the required book for the course I was taking I would not of bought this book. It is dated and uses HTML coding that has been deprecated and compares operating systems that are no longer suported. (Windows95/98). Find a book that is more current.

This book has some coding errors in it, but nothing I wasn't able to work around. If it wasn't the required book for the course I was taking I would not of bought this book. It is dated and uses HTML coding that has been deprecated and compares operating systems that are no longer suported. (Windows95/98). Find a book that is more current.

This has to be the worst textbook ever written. I've followed the examples perfectly and many do not work. The explanations are poor.

If there was a 0 stars rating, this book would get it. How bad is it? When I sold it back to my college bookstore, I got a whopping $3! Even my crappy dreamweaver book netted me $5, but $3 isn't even enough to buy lunch. I guess it's all good, as I'd rather have my cheetos and Faygo than this book anyways. The numerous errors caused me to lose points on homework assignments, even though I did the project step by step as they are in the book. What a disgusting excuse for a text. And I've used lots of great books too, so I can tell the difference between one that has effort put into it, and one that's out of date and, for lack of a better term, a disgrace. I'm just happy I was able to buy it on the amazon marketplace instead of paying the $46 the college would have sold it to me for.

If you get a class that ever uses this book, petition your board of cirriculum directors and have it changed, this book will help you learn javascript almost as much as a lobotomy will.

The first chapter sems to be ok, but once you get to chapter 3 you'll start to get confuse. I won't recomande this book if you are new to javascript.

This book is absolutely horrible, I am also using this book as part of a college class, there are errors in both projects 1 and 2, I am SO frustrated. There errata does not address the 2nd edition. Very poorly written, I pray I can get something done before I fail this class. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

The book covers only few of JavaScript concepts (surely not complete concepts and techniques). What bothers me are many errors. In lesson 3 I could get only rollovers to work properly. The book is too expensive for what it offers.

The book covers only few of JavaScript concepts (surely not complete concepts and techniques). What bothers me are many errors. In lesson 3 I could get only rollovers to work properly. The book is too expensive for what it offers.

I like this series of books from Course.com. Because there is a lot of exercises for us to practise. Just reading is not enough especially in your work. After some practise, you can strength your skills and have confidence to tell everyone you have experience on JavaScript. A easy reading book for beginner. But it is not the best. I prefer to Javascript For the World Widw Web. And use this one as practise.

I like this series of books from Course.com. Because there is a lot of exercises for us to practise. Just reading is not enough especially in your work. After some practise, you can strength your skills and have confidence to tell everyone you have experience on JavaScript. A easy reading book for beginner. But it is not the best. I prefer to Javascript For the World Widw Web. And use this one as practise.

I admit, when first attempting to use this book, I thought it could be a lost cause. I actually fired off a fuming e-mail to the publisher. Surprisingly they were very helpful and pointed me to the Web site that the book refers to. The Web site has a list of corrections to the errors in the book as well as a lot of resources outside of the book that have helped me learn JavaScript. Apparently there is a 2nd edition of this book that is published which some of the students at my school have purchased and have had no problems with it whatsoever. I like the way this book is laid out and it is easy to follow. I just had to get myself over the hump and get some help from the publisher.

I can usually forgive a few typos in any text, but this one not only has bad indexing, the code they have doesn't even work. Further, the authors are completely MSIE specific and don't bother to mention this minor detail. Save your money. This book is a complete waste of time.

This book was assigned for my internet course, and I found it very hard to fellow the programming code. They jumped up from no where, and the author did a poor job(or didn't bother) of explaining it. After I read the same project twice, still confused. If you don't know any JavaScript, it is not a good book to begin. I found it only wastes my time and effort, and the money to buy it. Don't choose this book if you have other choice. (I wish the teacher didn't choose this book! It is so frustrating to read it!)

This is quite possibly the worst book ever. It might explain the concepts, but you won't understand them. This book is not even worth the paper it is printed on. STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE! If I could assign negative stars to this book, I would. Learning wise, do yourself a favor and pick up "Sam's Teach Yourself Javascript 1.3 in 24 Hours".

Yes it is a good book for people who do not know java script, just one small problem. NOTHING IN THIS BOOK WORKS! Even with the errata page on their website these solutions do not work. There is no disk with this book and most of the homework assignments do not match the solution in the book so if you do not know html you will be wondering why the homework does not work. Shelly Cashman Series books are normally alright but this book just has too many errors.