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

Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by nickb on Sunday September 30, 2007 @02:00PM (#61330)

I've asked THE JS MAN himself, Doug Crockford of Yahoo!, what the best book on JS is and he says its: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan (edition is important... 4th one is not that good). Doug says a bit more about the lack of any good JS books:

"Bad Books

Nearly all of the books about JavaScript are quite awful. They contain errors, poor examples, and promote bad practices. Important features of the language are often explained poorly, or left out entirely. I have reviewed dozens of JavaScript books, and I can only recommend one: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan."

http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html

Also, make sure you watch his tutorial videos. They're awesome! There is a series of four intro videos and three advanced videos:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111593 http://101out.com/js_advanced.php

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by henryw on Sunday September 30, 2007 @06:28PM (#61399)

It got it awhile ago at buy.com $19 w/ GCO. It might be easier to read on paper than PDF.

http://www.buy.com/prod/javascript-the-definitive-guide/q/lo...

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by dfranke on Sunday September 30, 2007 @03:06PM (#61343)

I own the 4th edition and so far I've been happy with it. What has improved?

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Re:Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascr... by asb on Sunday September 30, 2007 @04:24PM (#61365)

Straight from the author, what's new in the 5th edition: http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2006_08.html#000110

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