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Re:Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition by jamesbritt on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @11:54AM (#8108947)
Re:Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition by kimmel on Thursday July 31, 2014 @06:47PM (#8117453)
This book needs some serious editing. There is clunky English which native speakers can figure out the gist of it but English as a second or later language would have a problem with. There are parts where I wonder why certain terminology is not explained before using it and other areas where terminology is explained that I assume the reader needed to know before reading this material. Good technical books have a section in the beginning usually called something like "Intended audience" or "Who should read this book". I only did editing for a few years but those are the first things I noticed after reading the intro and chapters 1-3.
Re:Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition by marijn on Saturday August 02, 2014 @09:58AM (#8124904)
Could you be more specific about the problems you found? The first few chapters of the book have been edited by three professional editors at this point.
Re:Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition by marijn on Saturday August 02, 2014 @03:30PM (#8125719)
(Clarification: actually, that goes for the first 4 real chapters. The intro chapter might still be a little rough.)