Forum for 5th edition?

Tom7 · February 24th, 2015, 12:18 PM

I just bought the kindle version of the fifth edition of this book, ISBN 978- 1- 118- 90333- 9. Will a forum be set up for it? Or do we just use this old forum?

Cheers,
Tom

Tom7 · February 26th, 2015, 02:28 PM

FYI, I have found what appears to be an error (a missing line of code) in the Kindle version of the 5th Edition.

At location 893 of 21966, 7% through the book, there is code which, according to Figure 1.3, is supposed to turn the background of the page red.

However, the code in my Kindle book definitely does not have any javascript in "script block 2" to turn the background red. It only has an

alert("second Script Block");

statement.

I took a screen shot of the code in the book so I could post it here and show people, but there doesn't appear to be a way to upload an attachment in this forum.

jminatel · February 27th, 2015, 12:05 PM

Tom: I'm totally sorry for my oversight on the 5e forum which I have now created and moved your post to. Thanks for letting us know. If you'd like to email me the screenshot of the kindle error at jminatel at wiley dot com I'll take a look at it.

Tom7 · February 27th, 2015, 05:20 PM

Email sent (and thanks given). Enjoying the book, by the way.

jminatel · February 28th, 2015, 11:57 AM

Tom, you are correct.
document.bgColor = "red";
is missing. It's shown in the explanation of the code but not in the code itself.
It's also correct in the code download file.
And if you want to play with a live version of the code, you can be one of the first too see some new code sandboxes we set up here:
http://blogs.wrox.com/article/beginn...ter-1-parsing/

Tom7 · February 28th, 2015, 05:47 PM

Wow, thanks.

I really looked in depth and compared a LOT of JavaScript books before I bought Beginning JavaSCript, 5th Edition... yet 'm only now beginning to see what a smart buy this book really was!

Thanks for all this.

honkymagoo · September 22nd, 2015, 09:05 AM

This was about chapter 1, example 2, correct?

If nothing else the omitted code for the color change made me scan the code and re-read through the example a number of times to fix it. Before I came on the forums I ended up just adding in the necessary code by myself.

Guess it taught me something by having an error lol

RacerBoy · September 22nd, 2015, 09:45 PM

Right! It will help to taught. So, waiting for next updates.