Oh my, what can I say. I tried to give this book and new author a chance, but it's painful every time I open it. I'm not one to leave overly critical reviews, but I feel like I'm part of a "tester" group for an unfinished product.
Here below are the issues I have with the book that I believe the author should sort out in the next editions:
1. The content of the book is VERY shallow. Topics get a few paragraphs each and then hugely sized code blocks showing a few examples that take up a big part of the page. This is what triggers me when I open it, because the book is titled, the COMPLETE GUIDE to modern JS when it should be a CHEATSHEET/HANDBOOK instead. I bought it to supplement Jon Ducket's old JS & JQuery book thinking it would cover the ES6 gap. It's so sad that for almost the same price, I could have gotten "Understanding ECMAScript6" by Nicholas if it wasn't out of stock.
2. This book looks like a print out of the PDF version and is not structured like a physical book. The chapter titles font size are not that much bigger than the content's font size, making it hard to see when a new chapter starts.
3. Overall physical quality of the book is that of an on-demand print by amazon. I could print and bind an open source JS PDF at home and have more detailed book not that far away in quality.
4. There is no index at the back of the book, like a regular book to be referenced should have. Again, maybe a waste of time you only get a few words of explanation/definition for each topic, so the table of content should suffice.
What the author does well is to compile short blurbs of all there is to know about modern JS into one book. The end of chapter quizzes are also ok. But this is information you can get in detail on MDN or in free open source PDFs online.
I wanted a book I could study with offline, but with this book, I'll have lots of Googling to do. If I weren't in a different country to the amazon store, I would have returned it the first time I opened it.
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- Williams777Reviewed in Germany on October 7, 2022
A good cheatsheet, not a complete guide to modern JavaScript.
Oh my, what can I say. I tried to give this book and new author a chance, but it's painful every time I open it. I'm not one to leave overly critical reviews, but I feel like I'm part of a "tester" group for an unfinished product.Williams777A good cheatsheet, not a complete guide to modern JavaScript.
Reviewed in Germany on October 7, 2022
Here below are the issues I have with the book that I believe the author should sort out in the next editions:
1. The content of the book is VERY shallow. Topics get a few paragraphs each and then hugely sized code blocks showing a few examples that take up a big part of the page. This is what triggers me when I open it, because the book is titled, the COMPLETE GUIDE to modern JS when it should be a CHEATSHEET/HANDBOOK instead. I bought it to supplement Jon Ducket's old JS & JQuery book thinking it would cover the ES6 gap. It's so sad that for almost the same price, I could have gotten "Understanding ECMAScript6" by Nicholas if it wasn't out of stock.
2. This book looks like a print out of the PDF version and is not structured like a physical book. The chapter titles font size are not that much bigger than the content's font size, making it hard to see when a new chapter starts.
3. Overall physical quality of the book is that of an on-demand print by amazon. I could print and bind an open source JS PDF at home and have more detailed book not that far away in quality.
4. There is no index at the back of the book, like a regular book to be referenced should have. Again, maybe a waste of time you only get a few words of explanation/definition for each topic, so the table of content should suffice.
What the author does well is to compile short blurbs of all there is to know about modern JS into one book. The end of chapter quizzes are also ok. But this is information you can get in detail on MDN or in free open source PDFs online.
I wanted a book I could study with offline, but with this book, I'll have lots of Googling to do. If I weren't in a different country to the amazon store, I would have returned it the first time I opened it.
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