Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

It's a simple book on AJAX with terse explainations. However, the book has to trade-off detailness for its simplicity. Not probs on that, since it is an ideal one for Begineers.

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

Normally I enjoy O'Reilly books. However, I was very disappointed with this one. The constant overuse of illustrations, arrows, images and call-outs (on every page in the book) was extremely distracting. It felt more like reading a children's book, than a technical reference book. A "cutesy" format is not a substitute for good solid content.

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

This book, according to its synopsis, is basically laid out for beginners and for that it is generally genius and mostly helpful, even if you look up for things at the end of reading.

The negative aspect of this is that you have to go through more pages than usually to learn about the same amount as covered in other books.

though...

You have to think about the purpous and the approach of the book! It implicates knowledge of which you will even be aware of years later, and thus the book has a long-lasting effect, every other book simply cannot and will not provide!

Of course, if you would like to dig deeper into the matter of AJAX and you're looking for comprehensive stuff, this shouldn't be your first choice and it will certainly not fulfil your needs.

but...

In spite of exclusively covering the basisc this book will give you a fundamental basis of knowledge about the whole AJAX thing.

My personal conclusion is that AJAX Head Rush book totally lives up to its promises and I highly recommend it for beginners.

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

I found this book to be extremely helpful in learning Ajax quickly and easily. It is organized differently from other books in that it uses visual examples and presents information in small, easy-to-process bits of information that, in the end, left me with an solid understanding of how Ajax works as well as the confidence and knowledge to develop my own applications without any prior experience with the concepts.

As a web producer, I am always looking for more efficient and interesting ways to present web content and Ajax seems to be both. Head Rush Ajax made it simple for me to learn and implement Ajax in a matter of days.

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

I've got to say I'm disappointed. I was drawn by the layout/style of the book, but there is very little substance behind it. I've read Chapters 1 and 2 and think the material that occupies 138 pages could have easily been covered in 20-30 pages. And the amount I learnt really didn't justify the amount of time invested. Usually O'Reilly books are to such a high standard, but not this one (in my opinion).

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

What a mess. Same information again and again and again. I am at page 109 and when I think what I have learnt till now its very little.

I was impressed by other head first books (SCBCD, Design patters etc) and I bought this book expecting that it would be of the same standard.

I must say that this is not the book for any professional.

Tnx

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

Hey o'reilly has done a great job by introducing starters book in form of head first and head rush...this book Head Rush Ajax made be to learn from the scratch....It makes us feel that AJAX is just a script as simple and interesting as other interesting languages...

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

I was very unimpressed with this book.

Sixty pages of the same thing repeated to me over & over & over just to get to the stupid updatePage() function in the first chapter alone.

It was so bad that I returned it to Barnes & Noble and did not bother to read the rest.

Outside of the scope of the very poor client-side code conventions that were so eloquently articulated in a previous post. I was completely appalled at the quality of the PHP code that was supplied.

Given the fact that newbs will be reading this book, this is just further incentive for PHP developers (and aspiring PHP developers) to continue throwing out garbage applications.

This book was not worthy of the time it took me to go to the store, much less, the time I wasted reading the first chapter.

After reading Head First Design Patterns I apparently had my expectation set too high, however, I'm very disappointed.

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

I found at least one mistake in your post:

>ID attributes are not added to SPAN elements to >style them. Classes are used for styling.

IDs can be used to style elements. This mistake makes me question your credibility on the subject of web design and coding, on top of the fact that I loved the book, and found it enjoyable as well as informative.

Comments about oreilly Head Rush Ajax:

A great book!

I really don't understand the comments of Michael (posted earlier). This book is really great.

I like studying form good books, not on screen (like those on-line courses), and without a teacher which I am depending on getting 'the picture'. And very important for me, as a not native English speaking person, a book that I can 'read' and 'understand' without searching through a dictionary all the time or trying to understand all kinds of 'weird' expressions.

In my opinion the 'Head First'-series do a great job in achieving learning and understandig 'hard' technical subjects on your own!

***** I can also recommend 'Head First Design Pattern' (I can't explain how thankfull I am that this book is written).