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Title: Decent intro to object orientation in Javascript
Review: A book on Javascript objects would seem a challenge, especially when it presumes no prior Javascript knowledge. To do that while also providing meaningful info to interest those experienced in objects, but perhaps new to JS, would be a feat indeed. I feel the authors met both challenges.Where most Javascript books focus more on the use of JS to manipulate web documents, this book gives serious consideration to Javascript as a programming language--and it's strengths as an object-oriented one--first, and as a tool for extending HTML and web pages second. It's an interesting approach, and one that for the most part works.It's a dense book. While 60 pages of a Javascript Dummies book would go by in about an hour, expect to spend a few hours or more reaching the same point here.How much one learns will certainly depend on your background, but I can speak as someone with both mild JS and object knowledge that I learned an awful lot.
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