--- product_id: 3606109 title: "jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More" price: "€ 38.74" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/3606109-jquery-pocket-reference-read-less-learn-more store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More **Price:** € 38.74 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More - **How much does it cost?** € 38.74 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/3606109-jquery-pocket-reference-read-less-learn-more) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More [Flanagan, David] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More Review: David is the man - I was a big fan of Flanagan's definitive javascript book. While that was a thick tome it gave me an excellent grounding in the intricacies of javascript. While initially dissappointed that David had only released a pocket reference for JQuery I am now convinced that not much more is needed. Compared to Javascript, JQuery is so much simpler and less verbose. The size of David's Javscript and Jquery references simply reflect these facts. I use JQuery regularly and this is the book I turn to, sometimes even before I google the internet. This book is a good investment. Review: Extremely helpful! Might have worked as my starter jQuery book - I go for long periods without writing javascript/jquery (mostly working on database/backend development), so I get rusty. I find this little "pocket reference" really fits the bill to help me get my mind back into jQuery tactics and syntax. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find so much information so well organized in such a small format (little space is wasted on unnecessary white space). The clarity lives up to the the high reputation that Flanagan has established in his comprehensive javascript volumes. Thanks: It's great to have this jewel to pack with me when on the road (as well as on desktop). ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,424,982 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #455 in JavaScript Programming (Books) #2,431 in Computer Programming Languages #5,670 in Programming Languages (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 105 Reviews | ## Images ![jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+G8d9iqlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ David is the man *by M***K on April 3, 2011* I was a big fan of Flanagan's definitive javascript book. While that was a thick tome it gave me an excellent grounding in the intricacies of javascript. While initially dissappointed that David had only released a pocket reference for JQuery I am now convinced that not much more is needed. Compared to Javascript, JQuery is so much simpler and less verbose. The size of David's Javscript and Jquery references simply reflect these facts. I use JQuery regularly and this is the book I turn to, sometimes even before I google the internet. This book is a good investment. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely helpful! Might have worked as my starter jQuery book *by R***D on January 15, 2011* I go for long periods without writing javascript/jquery (mostly working on database/backend development), so I get rusty. I find this little "pocket reference" really fits the bill to help me get my mind back into jQuery tactics and syntax. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find so much information so well organized in such a small format (little space is wasted on unnecessary white space). The clarity lives up to the the high reputation that Flanagan has established in his comprehensive javascript volumes. Thanks: It's great to have this jewel to pack with me when on the road (as well as on desktop). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kindle Edition *by S***N on June 14, 2011* This review pertains to the Kindle Edition. First, had Amazon or the publisher indicated that this was included as a chapter in Flanagan's recently published JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages, I wouldn't have bought it--but I downloaded both at the same time and didn't find out until a couple days later. That's why I gave the book a 4-start rating rather than 5. If you are a DTB user then it makes sense to have both because you're unlikely to want to carry around an 1100 page volume as a quick reference, but for a Kindle user with full text search available buying this is a waste of money if you are going to buy the other. That, in fact is my recommendation: buy the larger book and park it on your development workstation. That said, this is a fine piece of work. Like many developers, I started using a JavaScript library for a particular project and settled on jQuery because it provided the features I needed at the time. I came to understand its value and used in increasingly, but always with a familiarity constrained by the requirements of my initial use. My skills grew as I used it, but slowly. So, I really welcomed and valued the first 2/3 (or so) of Flanagan's book (or chapter), which is a narrative description of the library's features, with examples and detailed explanations of what's going on behind the scenes. Writing that sort of narrative about a programming language is hard, and Flanagan's only peer for that, in my opinion, is Friedl of Mastering Regular Expressions (also an O'Reilly book), and he succeeded here well enough that a person can actually read the whole thing with considerable understanding, thereby gaining a better overview of the library than can be had by searching out features when we bump up against something we don't know how to do. The last 1/3 of the book is a reference section: concise, simple, and well-organized, just what you need when you forget a particular syntax. The book was carefully adapted to electronic viewing. Code is displayed in a fixed space font to differentiate it from the surrounding text, but the font has the same height and color as the text and so is easy to read. Sidebars are presented with a slightly smaller, but still easily readable font, as a distinct block of text embedded with the main text. This, and the larger work from which it was extracted, are the best examples of technical books adapted to e-readers I have seen, so O'Reilly deserves considerable credit for their success in this format. The book was written for jQuery version 1.4 and the current version is 1.6.1 (as of today), and quite a bit has been added to jQuery. I knew that before I bought the book and decided the reference retained enough value to be worthwhile even though the version had been superseded. 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