Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!hal.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jukka K. Korpela" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: JavaScript Book Recommendations? Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:25:27 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <665sf7hv1a1r8dg54e9fm7tq1t0j17rudk@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ngroV0xYIIv0dzjhyZhv5A"; logging-data="6119"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198XYIu8kmltAbYcJK63V5J" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <665sf7hv1a1r8dg54e9fm7tq1t0j17rudk@4ax.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 111230-0, 30.12.2011), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:L9pS+5Rw1BWcb9+8yOsaum+1LJE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.javascript:9808 2011-12-30 21:49, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book on > JavaScript? (If anyone is going to suggest reading the FAQ, let me > say that you should read it first before hitting "Send".) I think I have read this entry in the FAQ. You are not saying what you are unhappy with it, so can you expect anything but a mix of personal opinions, at most? (Usenet is dying, so don't expect too much even in that category.) Books are fairly cheap, and many of them have samples and tables of contents online, so you can make your own decisions. "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" (in its latest edition) is extensive and up-to-date. But it's a handbook, not a textbook. "JavaScript: The Good Parts" is an extended essay with strong opinions, mostly reasonable. It doesn't really teach JavaScript, but it presents an expert opinion on what is worth learning in JavaScript. Also beware that people participating in forums like this have strong tendency towards being theoretical and biased, instead of considering what might help you to get your job done. They might worry much more about your coding style than the question whether you can actually produce working code. The resident troll is of course a grossly exaggerated example of this, but even apparently reasonable people have personal likes and dislikes as well as personal agendas and could judge books from a very narrow perspective. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/