JavaScript

College of Information and Computer Science
Programming::JavaScript

It is hard to find a good JavaScript book that is informative and authoritative because most JavaScript books were not written by Computer Science professors. And this is mainly because JavaScript is not a programming language regularly taught in Computer Science courses. Computer Science is about C++ and sometimes Java.

Many JavaScript books in the market today can be full of errors. The probable reason for this is that authors were writing these books on the fly and without much forethought or they were written by ghostwriters.

Here is the correct way of using the JavaScript constructor Function, which is different from the JavaScript keyword function.

var a = new Function("b", "alert('Hello, ' + b + '!')");

a("John"); //calls the function.

John Sindayen

Microsoft::Excel

Microsoft Excel can be used as a database like Microsoft Access. But the main disadvantage is that you will not be able to write a query to create tables.

If your database consists only of a few records, probably less than 100, then Excel might just be able to do the job as well as Access. But if you need to create tables from your Excel database on a regular basis, writing these tables directly from the Excel file can be time consuming.

Nonetheless, Excel as a database is a good alternative to Microsoft Access.

Microsoft Reference:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2462281/how-to-create-relational-databases-in-excel-2013.html

Excel in whatever you do!

John Sindayen