| Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week (Sams Teach Yourself) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bruce Campbell, Rick Darnell
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 2106092
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 508
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1575213354
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
UPC: 752063133545
EAN: 9781575213354
ASIN: 1575213354
Publication Date: September 30, 1997
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 Absolutely Don't Waste Your Money!! November 14, 1998
Besides being horribly structured and extremely hard to follow, it also has many examples that don't work! It's obviously written quickly and without good testing and review. I really can't say enough bad things about this book, so I'll just leave it at; DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! Actually, don't even take it if someone tries to give it to you.
 Not perfect, but better than most August 12, 1998
I'm not for sure what the other three readers were looking for, but I found this book delivered on its promises (after all, if a 15-year programmer needs a Teach Yourself book for HTML and JavaScript, how good can he be?) There are some examples that don't work with both, which I contacted the author about, and received an adequate explanation. If you want to get your feet wet in Dynamic HTML, and don't have a lot of experience with programming and/or HTML, this is a really good book to get you started. Unassuming, friendly, and leads you right along where you need to go. Compared with the partisan stuff out of Microsoft, and some of the highbrow reference suitable for a "C/C++ programmer of 15 years," this hits a reasonable middle ground, and works well.
Want To Waste Your Money? March 3, 1998
Yes, the book is "the FIRST book that combines the philosophy and intent behind Dynamic HTML", which should be a warning. The writers were pressured to get a product to the stores before any other publishing house got their books out. The result is a book that provides very little substance for a five hundred page book. While not coming with a CD, the publishers provide a companion website to compliment the book. That website? One file with the examples from the book, for the Mac or the PC. Yes, it is cheaper than slapping everything on a CD and jacking the price of the book up $10, but, like other "CD included!" books, there is nothing of value at the site. The reason why? The examples just don't work. "Teach Yourself How To Code Something That Looks Like Dynamic HTML (But Really Doesn't Work) In A Week" is a good buy if the corner store is out of Duraflame logs. If you want a book that actually teaches you DHTML, look elsewhere.
This book is very poorly written. January 16, 1998
I have read over half of this book and have finally come to the conclusion that it is not me. These guys don't understand what they are talking about. Much of the book is filled with confusing talk about the WWW consortium and how they might effect the HTML document object model, but little time is given to clearly explaining how things actually work. When the authors are not babbling on about vague abstract object models, they present poor examples and dig very deep about how these examples represent something useful. As a C/C++ program with 15 years experience and an experienced HTML 3.2 user, I believe I am qualified to state the this book is not for you.
Poor. Companion website misleading. December 22, 1997
Don't buy this book!!!! Says it comes with a companion website which appears to be nothing more than an advertisement for other books!! In order to use the online versions of Teach yourself Javascript and VBscrpt That are on the companion web site you have to buy the books.
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