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tech-unity.com; By James Pyles
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My review of this book recently appeared in Linux Magazine. I wrote that review a month or more ago and since then, have been perusing Dave Thau's book in a lot more detail. I still really like the book and I think it's a good way to learn JavaScript, but I've discovered the flaws.

Thau hosts a number of items on his site www.bookofjavascript.com including source code for the examples in all of the chapters. Unfortunately, not all of the code examples in the book or on the website actually work. I can't believe Thau would have published code that he hadn't tested but it sure looks that way. I thought it was me at first, but then I started playing with the examples and realized that some of them were broken.

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