Book Review: JavaScript in Easy Steps

JavaScript in Easy StepsJavaScript in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath
My rat­ing: 1 of 5 stars

This book isn’t worth the paper on which it’s print­ed unless you’re already a devel­op­er. If you aren’t, don’t both­er. McGrath intro­duces con­cepts with lit­tle to no expla­na­tion, tells you to type some­thing in, says it should do X, then moves on to the next thing. An aver­age of two pages per con­cept, with the code descriptions. 

He does­n’t address best prac­tices (at least, not a quar­ter of the way through the book). He always puts the scripts in the head of the doc­u­ment, which is (accord­ing to oth­ers I’ve been learn­ing from) a bad idea unless there’s a good rea­son for it.

Along with all that, there’s sup­posed to be a web­site that goes with the book, where you can down­load the sam­ple code. There’s no men­tion of the fact that the site is only acces­si­ble to those in the U.K. Why do that, then mar­ket the book in North America?

I think it deserves no stars, but GoodReads won’t let me do that.

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Cyn is Rick's wife, Katie's Mom, and Esther & Oliver's Mémé. She's also a professional geek, avid reader, fledgling coder, enthusiastic gamer (TTRPGs), occasional singer, and devoted stitcher.
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