A Tale of Two Books
Recently, I decided that it was a good thing to finally sit down and go through my JavaScript book again. The last time I really used JavaScript was way back when I worked at ArnoldWorldwide, and what I knew was very rusty, and most likely very out of date. I still had my Visual Quickstart Guide from back then, and I figured that re-reading this book would be a cheap way to get back into it, so I sat down and started reading it. Man was I wrong. This book was talking about Netscape and IE for the Mac! Then I checked the published date… 2001. This book was not going to do me any good. Well, it might, but having to sift through the code to find stuff that was relevant to today and not 9 years ago would be too much work for a beginner. So, I went out and picked up the new edition, that was published in 2009. No more mention of obsolete browsers, more mentions of current technologies, like AJAX, and much better for a beginner.
I am liking what I have been reading/practicing so far. Learning PHP made learning JavaScript easier I think… I hope.
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