JavaScript book?
Hey!
I want to learn JavaScript and I am moving to USA next week. It is much easier to get books there. Can anyone reccomend me a JavaScript book to learn from? I don't know much about JavaScript, but I know something - for example that Java and JavaScript are different languages, what is a variable and such.
This book should be up to date and examples there should be working everywhere - when I follow tutorials in internet, then it is not rare case, when I should learn something by an example that does not work any more.
And are there any good PHP books coming soon? After I've finished with JavaScript learning in a few months, I'd like to learn PHP any MySQL too.
Right now I know HTML and CSS from web programming languages, so I have to hardcode almost everything (not everything - I can use server side includes ).
Thank you,
Kristjan Siimson
Busy posted this at 20:58 — 10th February 2005.
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Books can get outdated, mind you I don't think Javascript itself has been updated as a language in many moons, but PHP and MSQL have.
The net is good for new and old tutorials, download the tutorials and you will soon find out what is junk and whats not (find at least two sites), with PHP go for tutorials that handle PHP5, not all webhosts use it yet as it's still in beta but should be out in the coming months.
Don't know if you know or not but you can dlownload a Apacahe/PHP/MSQL bundle and run off your windows machine (learn offline), heaps around, one I recommend is firepages.com.au they also have some tutorials.
good luck and have fun in the states *wish I was going*
Zeus posted this at 21:02 — 10th February 2005.
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Joined: Feb 2005
Thanks, I check out firepages.com.au!
I probably can't run a server, because my internet connection here is very limited and slow, I live too far from city to have any network cables here and I can't run a server on my windows machine simply because I don't have a pc with windows. Luckily I am using a free host with PHP and MySQL.
Thank you,
Kristjan Siimson
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