Good Javascript Books

What good JS books u read?

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I don't remember where I began looking for information for developing on The Internet

Oh yeah! No, never mind, I forgot.

http://www.51cnnet.net/ebook/2144-javascript-the-good-parts
I enjoyed your mother's life last night, if you know what I mean.

The trick to learning JavaScript is to understand it's scheme roots. Which means that you should read SICP.

Ian,

My list of references online:
w3schools.com -> DOM, JS reference
ECMAScript standard
Mozilla's Javascript pages

If you're considering Javascript coding, just start writing code based on DOM and javascript basics .. and increase your vocabulary of objects and methods available as you go along.

In terms of buying a book, I haven't bought one yet. I kinda liken JS as a bad boy of programming languages and like it like that. JResig's book by manning is due anytime soon that talks about how to write your own JS based language or what have you - its fairly advanced in my opinion, and would be good to get a sense of applied JS in the field.

cheers,

tlvsg

ECMASCRIPT MY ANUS

okay thanks tlvsg.

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>>12
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>>13
Zing!

I'll second Crockford's butterfly book. It's nice and concise, explaining the parts of JS that set it apart. I haven't read the fat O'Reilly JS reference book. I think the same author of that wrote the Ruby book, and that's quite good.

MDC pages are an okay reference to some of the weirder library stuff.

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EMACSCRIPT MY ANUS

There no good "current" books on JS. Just google the parts you need.

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VIMCRIPT MY ANUS

It's about properties: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pattern.html

http://jsninja.com/

^^^^^
Written by the creator of jQuery - John Resig. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja - *best*

thanks 4 references to the ninja book -can't believe this thread is still here lol

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