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Expression books?
Howdy all. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a book that teaches expressions very well. Specifically, learning the language of expressions, and presenting them in a way that’s easy to progressively understand more and more complex uses for expressions.
Most of the time with expressions I’m pickwhipping and experimenting and mashing together examples I see on the Cow and MotionScript, but I don’t really understand the language and logic behind a lot of it.
If such a book does not exist, anyone with the gumption to write such a book would have at least one reader. 🙂
-taikwanjo
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No book exists…from what I remember Dan was thinking about doing one for a while, but I think it might be hard to find a publisher of such a niche book.
Harry J. Frank does an expressions training DVD series which I head is good.
The motionscript lessons on mastering expressions are good, and I used those to learn a lot of things.
JJ Gifford’s website (I can’t remember what the url is) teaches some of the basic math behind expressions.
My site http://www.colinbraley.com has some thrown together tutorials that could maybe help you learn a few specific things if you don’t mind terrible writing.
Also, you could just buy a book on javascript to learn the syntax if you have no programming familiarity. The only issue is that a lot of it will be directed at people trying to use javascript to build webpages.~Colin
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Thanks very much for the helpful suggestions. I actually just e-mailed the web guy at my station to see if he might have a javascript book I could borrow.
I think the biggest hindrance to my understanding expressions is my pea-sized brain. For me expressions are like playing golf — mastery eludes me, but every now and the planets align and I do well with it. Maybe I just need to play golf more.
-Taikwanjo
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