My friend and collegue Stoyan Stefanov recently asked me if I wanted to write a review of his new book on Object-Oriented Javascript. Of course I agreed and took some time to read the book and form an honest opinion about it. What follows is a review of this new recently released book.

Object-Oriented Javascript is a pure javascript book. It's quite a bit different from many books I've seen before and in this case this is a good thing.

First chapters

In the first two chapters Stoyan provides a quick crash course on the history of Javascript, some fundamentals of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) and language fundamentals. The first difference with a lot of other books shows fairly early in the book. Stoyan invites his readers to use the FireBug console and immediately try out the examples given in the book to experience them first-handed. The examples are never long winded or complicated but come straight to the point. A great way to achieve an instant learning effect!

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