Coding with JavaScript FD (For Dummies Series)

Ok... Granted I'm a newbie at coding. But from what I've been able to learn is that a few of the things mentioned and/or taught in this book are ever so slightly out-of-date. For example, the "var" declaration is rarely, if at all, used anymore. "const" and "let" are more commonly used now. Keep that in mind when using this book.This part is more of a personal choice and recommendation. DO NOT use the Sublime Text code editor suggested in the book. I use Visual Studio Code and it works exceedingly well for my needs. By all means however, if Sublime Text is what you're comfortable with use that! As long as the editor you use works and produces the solutions you're looking for, well then it did the job right after all!However! This book is a great start for learning the fundamentals of learning JavaScript!

This book was exactly what I wanted for a quick language overview. I have used the "Dummies" books for years to learn new things and this book did not let me down.

The book is useful and easy to follow. The link to online exercises has nothing to do with this book. They go with some other text.

Havent started using but have started reading. Easy to use. Will update later

Great for new people but if you already know Javascript, look for a different book

Good Book for getting started with javascript

I am new to coding, and so I know there is much I have to learn, but from the first exercise in this book I was disappointed. The very first code they have you write a code to count to ten.I spent an hour and half going every piece of it, and I could not get it to work. I tried it in different code editors, I typed and retyped and retyped and retyped line by line; character by character. At the end of the hour and a half, my typed code was identical, character to character, with what they write as an example, and it never worked.After a week of trying this, going through several examples, typing my code exactly as it is written in this book, has resulted in a different result from what they show and claim I should be getting.Along with this, I have noted several typos which I chalked up to simple editing mistakes, however this is becoming inexcusable coupled with my code results differing so greatly from what they claim I should be getting.I cannot believe I spent money buying this book, and I will not be purchasing another “Coding with ‘X’ for Dummies” since this is the caliber of work they produce.

This is awesome

This is a very poor book:- It's expensive, but printed on cheap paper.- It contains many mistakes, which will make some parts of the book impossible to follow, if you don't already have a background in computing or maths.- many concepts are introduced without any explanation whatsoever at the time they're first being introduced.- in order to understand some parts of the book, you're constantly having to refer back to other parts to find out what some of the code means.Although there are supposedly on-line examples to try, these simply take you to "Coding Academy" and require you to follow the exercises in a different order from the Coding Academy order (presumably because the book is structured slightly differently). It doesn't work very well. In the end, I decided to run through the Coding Academy exercises in the proper order after finishing the book. It's not clear to me whether the authors even have anything to do with the creation of the Coding Academy exercises, although in the absence of anything to the contrary, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that one.In summary, if you're looking for a beginner's book on Java Script, I recommend you avoid this one, and pick one of the others after making sure it has a significant positive user rating (which is what I ought to have done!)

I totally dislike this book. The link to code examples is rubbish/useless. The description of how to use Objects is introduced in a roundabout way, encouraging bad practice, then trying to correct it. No mention of classes. No proper usage of class inheritance. No examples of how to export/import code.The printed code examples in the book are a real mess. I find myself on Amazon, looking for a proper book on JavaScript, feeling that I am indeed a Dummy for buying this book. I no longer trust the "star" ratings on Amazon.

I am a machine code programmer just starting out in 4gl a very well written guide

Easy to understand and follow

Unfortunately, JavaScript is intolerant of typos. Well, that's not the unfortunate bit, actually; the unfortunate bit is that this book's got typos aplenty. I have found one of the author's blogs, where they go page-by-page and tell you what to strike out and what to replace, but mere hours after doing every correction recommended there, I found an undocumented typo. I wouldn't have known it was there if it weren't for my previous training in coding HTML and CSS. So... use at your own risk, I suppose. I worry that the moment will come when there's an undocumented typo keeping me from succeeding at an exercise and my existing skill won't help me.