As String says, different people have different learning styles. I think, for a complete beginner, a book that works you from beginning to end in a consistent, well-laid out approach beats a load of disparate (albeit free) web resources that may be of dubious quality/ accuracy.
Many posters in this thread have commented on the fact that a lot of questions asked here stem from a lack of fundamental javascript knowledge. I agree, but I'd say that the second most common source of problems is caused by people who have copied 'n' pasted example code from webpages, which is taken out-of-context, is often out-of-date and uses deprecated methods or techniques, and in some cases was not that well-written in the first place... if you have a good book it should explain things like *why* you can't modify the map elements before the DOM has finished loading, or *why* you should declare your map as a global variable, or *why* you should call GUnload afterwards etc. - I don't often see that in webpages. At the end of the day it's a personal choice... On Feb 11, 11:04 am, Esa <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with all of you who prefer web resources rather than killing > trees and printing. > > If someone has an idea of writing a book I would suggest rather to > consider composing a web resource. The material is here on this forum > (directly or linked) but it should be packed in an easy-to-find-and- > read form. > > An example what I mean: > > Garrett Smith is maintaining a general JavaScript > FAQhttp://www.jibbering.com/faq/ > in co-operation with JavaScript discussion > group.http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/topics --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
