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2 reviews
Don Gosselin

Course Technology, 2007

Too many typos
Although the content is for the most part good, I have found after just two chapters that there are so many typos (tags not closed properly, etc.) and left out content (such as CDATA statements,) the lessons end up generating JavaScript errors and don't validate, so you have to go back and modify the script on your own - not an easy task when you are just learning, since you have to research the ...

JavaScript: The Missing Manual

4 reviews
David McFarland

Pogue Press, 2008

One of the Best
I'm a self-taught, hobbyist web developer. Therefore, I appreciate lively and, most of all, clear explanations and examples in books that teach HTML, CSS and related technologies. As should be evident from my review's title, books by David McFarland are among the best at teaching someone like me. I've read the author's Missing Manual books on CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 and have enjoyed their ...

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

274 reviews
David Flanagan

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

The Best JavaScript Book
This book not only assists first-time JavaScript programmers, but is an excellent reference for the more experienced developers. The examples are first-rate, and the reference sections are more comprehensive than any I've seen for this language. A MUST if you are a serious JavaScript professional.

JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

17 reviews
Tom Negrino, Dori Smith

Peachpit Press, 2006

JavaScript & AJAX
The book arrived quickly. I is new quality. I intend to increase my knowledge of DOM, JavaScrip anf AJAX.

Head First JavaScript (Head First)

27 reviews
Michael Morrison

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Another bullseye from HeadFirst!
Web development is not my primary job so I was looking for something to give me a better understanding of JavaScript without too great an investment of time and money. This book is it! Amazing detail but incredibly easy to follow. The book is simple to scan for overviews of each chapter, which lets users with some background skip what they are already familiar with and jump into sections they ...

JavaScript: The Good Parts

20 reviews
Douglas Crockford

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

half best-practices tutorial, half advice collection
I bought this book expecting a textbook manual on how to use some JavaScript features. I ended up having an easy to read compilation of thoughts about the whole language, from an experienced Yahoo! member. But the best book feature was the way the author managed to convince us about the concept of "good part". It isn't an evangelic script - it has clear examples of why you should avoid certain ...

Pro JavaScript Techniques (Pro)

19 reviews
John Resig

Apress, 2006

Excellent work!
John Resig never fails to amaze and his latest book is no exception. I highly recommend it to everyone interested in javascript; it is a must have.

Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)

5 reviews
Paul Wilton, Jeremy McPeak

Wrox, 2007

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With this up-to-date guide, you'll find everything you need to know in order to develop interactive, robust, and personalized pages using JavaScript. It takes you step by step through this powerful scripting language so you can begin enhancing your site right away and increase visits. You'll learn how to take advantage of native JavaScript objects, manipulate objects that are available to you in ...

JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook (2nd edition)

27 reviews
Danny Goodman

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

excellent reference
I still have the first edition of this book but other than perhaps missing the chapters on ajax it's not outdated at all. This book has saved my life several times already. Almost every time I am looking to solve a tricky problem in javascript, I find that this book contains a well explained chapter with the exact solution that I was looking for. The authors often make a point of going through ...

JavaScript Demystified

9 reviews
James Keogh

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2005

I learned all the tricks I see on the web
I you ever wondered how the professional web page developers dress up their web pages, then take a look at this book. Every trick that I've seen on commercial web pages are revealed in this book. I easily copied code from the book into my web pages and made mine work like a pro web page. Good book.

Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours (4th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)

28 reviews
Michael Moncur

Sams, 2006

good if you know basic elements of java
This is not a bad book. It's really a well written book, but it does require some prior knowledge from the user. It would help if a user has some basic knowledge of Java. Some rudimentary knowledge of Java will help to understand the JavaScript object model and methods like toString(), etc. Compare to what I consider to be the main competitor for this type of book, the O'Reilly JavaScript ...

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Professional Guides)

38 reviews
Nicholas C. Zakas

Wrox, 2005

Best Pro JavaScript book on the market
JavaScript has progressed from a nice little scripting language for some neat effects to a widely used programming language that is used in internal and external web applications. Not that it happened over night, but it eventually did happen and knowing and learning JavaScript is a desired skill in the web community. This book by Nicholas Zakas goes language concepts such as ECMAScript ...

JavaScript Bible

4 reviews
Danny Goodman

Wiley, 2007

Excellent Book
The content of this book is Excellent, the wait was worth it. I'm glad someone finally consolidated all the JavaScript information into a publication, which brings me to a criticism, not about the content. The print is too small. I believe it would have been better to turn this into a two book publication and make the print bigger (and blacker), the paper could also be whiter for better contrast ...

JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

21 reviews
John Pollock

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003

Pretty Good.
This book is great for beginning javascript programmers who have a clue how to program. It is definitely not great for someone to learn the skill of computer programming. Additionally the excersices are not very challenging(I've only gotten up to the chapter on arrays, but the other chapter excersices leave little room for creativity). The good thing about this book is that it is a great way ...

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)

11 reviews
Ross Harmes, Dustin Diaz

Apress, 2007

the best book i've ever read about javascript OOP
the book is amazing and front-end engineer should not miss this one , it take you to the Guru level of knowledge with javascript OOP techniques and API creation world through Dustin diaz (Google) and Ross harmes (YahOO!) experience , beginning with OOP fundamentals in the first 6 chapters , then dive into the interesting javascript design patterns : Factory , Bridge , Composite , Facade , Adapter ...

Simply JavaScript

12 reviews
Kevin Yank, Cameron Adams

SitePoint, 2007

Awesome for a beginner
I love the fact that the book is easy to read and understand, particularly for a newbie to Javascript.

JavaScript Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)

18 reviews
David Flanagan

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002

Moderately good.
I am not a big fan of these 'Pocket Reference' books by O'Reilly. Although I have 8 of them, I find them too brief to be very helpful as a reference. Usually they come up short on many parts of the language. Recently I needed a refresher in JavaScript, and turned to Flanagan. I read the first part of the book to the API Reference on page 52. This seemed like a concentrated and intense ...

New Perspectives on JavaScript, Comprehensive (New Perspectives on)

5 reviews
Patrick Carey, Frank Canovatchel

Course Technology, 2005

Decent tutorials
The tutorials in the book are written well, but the exercises are just too confusing! They want you to take everything from previous chapters and incorporate it to write new code. They expect you to build new ideas based of what you just reviewed. The case exercises do not follow the tutorial. I find this extremely difficult for beginners and time consuming. Be prepared to research Javascript on ...

Learning JavaScript (Learning)

20 reviews
Shelley Powers

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Gifted author needs a gifted editor.
I've been learning JavaScript off and on, with some success, for three months. In doing so, I've skimmed about a half-dozen books and tried the following three, so far, "graded" below: Learning JavaScript (Powers B-) VQS JavaScript and Ajax (Negrino & Smith C+) O'Reilly JavaScript Pocket Reference (Flanagan B) Very good first draft. Powers either over-powered her editor (my guess) or ...

JavaScript for Dummies

71 reviews
Emily A. Vander Veer

For Dummies, 2004

Good intro book!
This book is good for a quick introduction to JavaScript. There's lots of general tricks and techniques, plenty of ideas, and code snippets to reuse (on the CD). However, the descriptions of HOW the code worked I found lacking. There were various details about exactly WHAT the Js interpreter was doing to parse the code. The book left me feeling that I had lots of great ideas, but that when I ...

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