books by Nicholas C. Zakas (development multimedia programmer)

books by Nicholas C. Zakas

books:

JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, Professional Ajax, Pro Web 2.0, Pro ...

1 review
Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, ...

Wrox, 2007

Good book set for the most part
The Wrox Box set is really good. I've found it very helpful in begining to learn AJAX. My only complaint is that they reference a legacy version of the Dojo Toolkit which is very old. I think version 0.3.6 and versions 0.4.8, 0.9, and 1.0.1 release have come out since then. Otherwise, awesome books.

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

38 reviews
Nicholas C. Zakas

Wrox, 2008

Best Pro JavaScript book on the market
JavaScript has progressed from a nice little scripting language for some neat effects to a widely used programming language that is used in internal and external web applications. Not that it happened over night, but it eventually did happen and knowing and learning JavaScript is a desired skill in the web community. This book by Nicholas Zakas goes language concepts such as ECMAScript ...

Professional Ajax (Programmer to Programmer)

19 reviews
Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, ...

Wrox, 2006

Very well written. Excellent resource.
I'm a senior ASP.NET/Web developer with no Ajax experience. This is my first Ajax book. I wanted to learn Ajax from the ground up, not just the Microsoft controls. Our ecommerce site is very highly trafficed and there's no forgiveness for inefficiencies. This book certainly fulfilled my expectations, but it also introduced me to some new worlds of concepts that I did not expect. For instance, the ...