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Re: JavaScript Book Recommendations?

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M. Strobel wrote:

> Am 06.01.2012 03:16, schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>> IMO, the best way to become professional about this is RTFM (and I really
>> mean the *manual*, i. e. language specifications and references), and
>> posting *relevant* *parts* of your code for public review as explained in
>> <http://jibbering.com/faq/#posting>.
> 
> We do RTFM all the time. But FMs are not made for teaching, they
> are for reference.

NAK.  With proper discipline, you can learn a lot when learning from a good 
manual combined with good discussions.  BTDT.  The Netscape JavaScript 
Guides and References (nowadays MDN), after being corrected in discussions, 
and the ECMAScript Language Specification, after being explained in 
discussions, have been excellent teachers to me.

> Best is a teacher (a real one, in flesh), next best is a good book.

But there is no good book.

> Discussion in a forum/newsgroup is IMO something you do in
> any case, and it is only for minor questions.

NAK.  You cannot have been reading here (or elsewhere) long, for the record 
shows that the most minor questions often cause the longest and most 
interesting discussions on much more than the subject of the original 
question.


PointedEars
-- 
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
  -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> (2004)

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