Ok guys and girls, I’d like your help on which JavaScript books to buy! After what seems like hours of searching, reading reviews, looking at tables of contents and contemplating I’ve decided that I’ll read some more…Read what you guys (and girls) think.
I’ve created my own shortlist (although it’s not very short lawl) of what I think I may be happy with purchasing and reading through. If there’s a book you know on JavaScript / DOM Scripting that I should definately buy that I haven’t listed in this shortlist or haven’t listed in the list of books I already have then please tell me. It’s a fairly long shortlist really, a longlist I guess, but I don’t know what I’m doing and the books listed below seem to be in my range / level.
Feel free to suggest / recommend a list of books from this list as I won’t just be buying one. Unless there is one book that covers absolutely everything these is to know about beginners JS (you know, basically everything JS excluding the OOP side) in which case I’ll finally buy one last book on JS and not need to spend anymore! All of the links go to Amazon.co.uk so you can see the prices in UK British pounds - my budget is around £100, maybe £150 as I’ll get some of the books for my birthday and pay for anymore with my own money.
Books I Currently Own
- DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
- Simply JavaScript
- DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM
- The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
- The Art & Science of JavaScript
My Shortlist
- JavaScript: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box
- JavaScript, A Beginner’s Guide, 3rd Edition
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition (Publish Date: May 2010)
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- JavaScript Step by Step Book/CD Package
- ppk on JavaScript
- Beginning JavaScript (Programmer to Programmer), 3rd Edition
- Beginning JavaScript
- Gettined StartED with JavaScript
- Head First JavaScript
- High Performance JavaScript
- Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting & Ajax: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)
- JavaScript: The Complete Reference, 2nd edition: The Complete Reference. Complete coverage of the W3C DOM2 standard (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
- Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
- Sams Teach Yourself Javascript in 24 Hours
- Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer’s Guide
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- JavaScript
- JavaScript Bible
- JavaScript Bible [Audiobook] (Paperback), 7th Edition
- JavaScript by Example (Paperback)
- Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting (Murach: Training & Reference) (Paperback)
- Smashing JavaScript: 100 Professional Techniques (Smashing Magazine Book Series) (Paperback)
- And whatever else you recommend to me!
Halp pls. kthnxbye.
Andrew Cooper