by Peter Svensson
Review:
I really enjoyed this book. It hit on a lot of topics that kind of surprised me. I starting reading many sections in the book and thought “wow, what a great idea for a technical book”. It could have been something small like the depth of the introduction chapters or something larger like the chapter on AOL and Googls Content Delivery Network (CDN). I guess my point is, this book was an excellent tool and resource to learn Dojo – it covered everything I was hoping for and then some. I have already used the book as a reference a couple of times – whether it was for a URL or a snippet – which the samples are excellent. I found the code snippets very helpful, they are very realistic and easy to follow. There is a small chapter on Dojo Objective Harness and while it gave a good primer I wanted to see a little bit more.
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Free Chapter to review – Chapter 6.
In short, I highly recommend anyone wanting to learn Dojo to check this book out and make it part of their collection. I have the eBook version and I found it very easy to read.
Bob, We have found this book to be very poor compared to Mastering Dojo and Dojo the Definitive Guide, they give a load more detail on some of the areas that are complicated. I guess it was OK for some basic stuff but if you are going to do serious Dojo I would not invest in this book.
Cheers
Matt
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Thanks Matt, I will definitely check that out. Learning Dojo in my opinion was a well constructed book with good examples for someone new to Dojo. I will have to check out Mastering Dojo. I do think between the Learning Dojo and the internet I probably have enough information to do just about anything – we will see.
Hi Bob
Having read “Learning Dojo”, I found it to be a good introduction to many dojo topics. It provided some eye openers for me and good background info on closures and json.
I am currently reading “Oreilly Dojo The definitive Guide”. While it covers more details about each area of dojo, I absolutely hate the examples. You can only see so much foo/bar/baz stuff. I prefer seeing examples that you can use in projects.
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