The Book of JavaScript (2nd edition) by "thau!" (Dave Thau, according to the book's companion website) is a new and comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript language presented in an entertaining, practical format. I was provided a review copy by the publisher, No Starch Press. I have significant practical experience with JavaScript, so I do not consider myself in the target audience for this book; however, I still found much of it useful so it will remain as a valuable reference on my bookshelf.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I think the bottom line is that the people involved in hiring programmers often have so little knowledge about the subject.
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Where I live, .NET is the big thing. I always get these questions about whether I am a C# developer or a VB.NET developer. I try to explain to them that in the .NET world the two are almost the same. You are coding the exact same API, and that I wouldn't trust a programmer who couldn't translate code between the two. When I say this, all I see are glazed eyes. To the people who do the hiring, they are as different as VB6 and Visual C++. I finally just gave up trying to explain it, and just made sure I had equal experience with both.
I mean, can it really be that hard to change:
Dim frmNew as Form
frmNew = new Form()
frmNew.text = "My Form"
To:
Form frmNew;
frmNew = new Form();
frmNew.text = "My Form";
Wow, what a magical transformation!
Granted, there are some subtle differences - keyword differences (shared vs static), initialization differences, etc, but they are trivial compared to the old days of Visual C++ vs. VB6. In fact, I think the differences are more mindset than anything - geek snobs vs. code cowboys (I'll let you decide which is which ;} )
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Member since:
2005-07-09
Hey enrages me. I feel exactly the same way about the 'C' shell too.