Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascript?

Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by waleedka on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:31PM (#61321)

I recommend "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide". I read a couple of pages in B&N to see if it was any good, and it paid for itself right there.

edit: Get the 5th Edition. See nickb's comment.

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by marrone on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:58PM (#61328)

agreed.

Also check out 'Pro Javacsript Techniques' by John Resig.

Read this article on closures which is the best description I have read of such a crucial crucial aspect of the language: http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html

Also read Crockford: http://javascript.crockford.com/

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by altay on Monday October 01, 2007 @01:25AM (#61496)

John Resig's book is great. (He's the dude behind the jQuery library, and also a YC alum, FYI.)

I'd recommend that, and of course the Definitive Guide. Look for the Rhino.

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by marrone on Monday October 01, 2007 @09:25AM (#61586)

wow, I didnt know Resig was a YC guy.

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by bokonist on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:37PM (#61322)

+! for "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide"

Once you have learned javascript, DHTML: The Definitive Reference is a great desktop reference, although it's less important now that javascript libraries are so good.

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