Books & Tutorials

[Rh0ads]

can anyone suggest a book or tutorial that they thought was very informative when they were learning Javascript?

[filburt1]

Sam's Publishing Teach Yourself Javascript in 24 Hours.

[sail3005]

http://www.brainar.com

[[praetorian]]

www.htmlgoodies.com / www.javagoodies.com

[ubunreal69]

yeh, i dont know where u live but here in australia we have "Next Handbooks", they cover things like Visual Basic, Linux, ect... i have the one on Javascript, it was verry good, comes with cd with all the example projects from the book (3) trust me, verry good.

their site is surposed to be "next.com.au" but it doesnt seem to exist at the moment, maybe its down. anyways, have a look into it.

hope i was of some help.

Michael

[chrismitchell]

Personally if you plan on learning JavaScript from Scratch the way I did it was to start with the Visual Quickstart Guide to JavaScript 3rd Edition (or higher), then move to the O'Reilly JavaScript book.

That is my recommendation... Both books are very reasonably priced too.

[sail3005]

this is how i learned:

http://www.enteract.com/~rhillego

[Psyrus]

JavaScript The Definitive Guide(3rd Edition)
David Flanagan
O'Reilly


A little old but it gets you started.

[JoshT]

Personally if you plan on learning JavaScript from Scratch the way I did it was to start with the Visual Quickstart Guide to JavaScript 3rd Edition (or higher), then move to the O'Reilly JavaScript book.

No, I thought the Visual Quickstart book was totally awful. It doesn't teach anything about the language or object model, just gives you copy and paste code for common script tricks. The O'Reilly Rhino book is much, much, much better.

[sail3005]

Also, i think that a very good way with a simple language like JS is to just download some free scripts, and see how they work. Fiddle with all the vars and such.

look at http://www.24fun.com
http://www.dynamicdrive.com