Looking for resources to help you maximize your learnings and minimize your
time use is often fruitless. Publishing deadlines cut books short, real life
gets in the author's way, and personal preference, well there isn't much you
can do about that. In many ways, this book is an oddity.
The voice is at ease, nothing is crammed down your throat and it doesn't feel
like he was slamming caffeinated beverages just to get it done. It is refreshing
being the recipient of an exposition that not only teaches you, but questions
you, and sets expectations of you and what you should learn. The book is broken
up into 68 different lessons, and it ends up being a perfect approach. It gives
you time to pick it up when you are free and dig as deep as you want. It also
is very humble, the sections make the point and pose the advice, and if you
don't grok it then you had better revisit it. Again, it makes for peaceful and
pleasant reading, without sacrificing the seriousness or even urgency of the
valuable points contained within.
Books like this are few and far between, at least when it comes to industrial
concerns. This book is a gem for the JavaScript technology, because it poses
the technology for thoughtful grownups instead of obsessing over the 24h
tricks, recipes of the week, and "one way to do it right", it will be a timeless
contribution that will always be valued.
Just like the author said, it is not for new learners of the language, it is for
experiences programmers who have gotten through the first 80% and now want to
master the remaining 80%.
On the Kindle it looked great, text, code, and pictures.
In my eyes, this is the missing manual that should have gone out with
ECMA-262. 5/5
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Soon to be a Classic, Just Like its Namesake
This is clearly an extraordinary book, worthy of its namesake, "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch, which has attained the status of being "a classic", since its publication in 2001. This book, "Effective Javascript", is sure to attain the same status. It's easy to tell when a subject is being explained to you by someone who understands a subject at its core and is in touch with its essence. With so many books on Javascript (and I've read a lot of them), you come away with the impression that they were written for the sake of being able to say, "I wrote a book", not really giving you better insight into the subject matter. But, those authors apparently felt they could study up on the material and phrase things better than others. Consequently, you come out knowing pretty much what you knew going in, but with just a slightly different slant on the topics. This book, however, is a complete shift in that pattern. You'll come away possessing a greater intimacy with Javascript. Update 7/19/2015: I'm taking away one star, not because of the anything that reflects on the author, or the quality of the content presented, but because the publisher is an inattentive dullard when it comes to making sure the formatting of the Kindle edition is right. Things like (10 + 20) + 30 come out looking like (10 2+0) 3+0. See attached screenshot. It ruins an otherwise great book. My advice to David Herman is, next time you write a book, don't choose Addison-Wesley Professional because they do no honor to an otherwise excellent book.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2014Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
This is clearly an extraordinary book, worthy of its namesake, "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch, which has attained the status of being "a classic", since its publication in 2001. This book, "Effective Javascript", is sure to attain the same status.
Soon to be a Classic, Just Like its Namesake
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2014
It's easy to tell when a subject is being explained to you by someone who understands a subject at its core and is in touch with its essence. With so many books on Javascript (and I've read a lot of them), you come away with the impression that they were written for the sake of being able to say, "I wrote a book", not really giving you better insight into the subject matter. But, those authors apparently felt they could study up on the material and phrase things better than others. Consequently, you come out knowing pretty much what you knew going in, but with just a slightly different slant on the topics.
This book, however, is a complete shift in that pattern. You'll come away possessing a greater intimacy with Javascript.
Update 7/19/2015: I'm taking away one star, not because of the anything that reflects on the author, or the quality of the content presented, but because the publisher is an inattentive dullard when it comes to making sure the formatting of the Kindle edition is right. Things like (10 + 20) + 30 come out looking like (10 2+0) 3+0. See attached screenshot. It ruins an otherwise great book. My advice to David Herman is, next time you write a book, don't choose Addison-Wesley Professional because they do no honor to an otherwise excellent book.
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- specificityyReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2017
Great book for turning you into an effective JS developer
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- Dietmar KönigReviewed in Germany on February 3, 2014
Good Value for Money
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