On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:21 PM, AtlantaGeek wrote:
My only comment so far is that - IMHO - the explanation of chaining on page 30 might have been nicer to have earlier on. I think JQuery is kind of cryptic. I imagine lots of people using it come from the C world and so they find this normal, but I'm not real fond of cryptic languages. When I studied computer science at Ga. Tech, the teaching language was Pascal - a concise, readable language. I've used M$ Visual FoxPro for 15 years - a powerful, object-oriented and very readable database language. I agree with your last sentence on page 30 about breaking up the code, adding comments, and how it can save time in the long run. [...]
I appreciate the feedback.Yeah, I definitely see what you mean about that. We had to strike a delicate balance in the initial chapters between providing meaningful examples and adhering to a sensible progression of ideas. I guess we kind of thought that people starting from scratch with jQuery, perhaps people with very little to no programming experience, might be confused about the concept of chaining before they actually saw it in an example. Your point is well-taken, though. Something to consider, perhaps if there is ever a 2nd edition.
Cheers, --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com
