Good JavaScript book?

[GundamSonicZeroX]

The two main books I am considering are Simply JavaScript and JavaScript for the Web. Which of these two books should I buy, or should I purchase some other book?

Also, if the better book to buy is JavaScript for the Web, should I wait for the Seventh Edition coming out in October or get the Sixth Edition? Is there anything thing new that changed in JS over the past year?

 

[DannyBoy]

How competent are you with JavaScript?

I've been working as a JS developer for 4 -5 years now and I've recently read Douglas Crockfords 'JavaScript: The Good Parts', several times and found it highly useful and intuitive.

Are you looking for a reference manual (i.e. O'Reilly's JavaScript Definitive Guide) or are you more interested in something to educate you on good design patterns / models for a particular area?

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Thanks for replying to my thread. 🙂

Originally posted by: DannyBoy
How competent are you with JavaScript?

I don't even know how to do "Hello World" in JS. 😛

I really liked the Visual Quickstart Guide to HTML,XHTML, and CSS. That's the reason why I mentioned the other Quickstart Guide in my OP. I read the first chapter of Simply JavaScript and thought it was pretty good.

I've been working as a JS developer for 4 -5 years now and I've recently read Douglas Crockfords 'JavaScript: The Good Parts', several times and found it highly useful and intuitive.

Are you looking for a reference manual (i.e. O'Reilly's JavaScript Definitive Guide) or are you more interested in something to educate you on good design patterns / models for a particular area?

The latter. I think I need a book to educate me in JavaScript before I get a reference book. ;P

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
Thanks for replying to my thread. 🙂

I don't even know how to do "Hello World" in JS. 😛

document.write("Hello world");

or

alert("Hello world");

I really liked the Visual Quickstart Guide to HTML,XHTML, and CSS. That's the reason why I mentioned the other Quickstart Guide in my OP. I read the first chapter of Simply JavaScript and thought it was pretty good.

The latter. I think I need a book to educate me in JavaScript before I get a reference book. ;P

There's a dozen sites that have a great introduction to JS, I'll have to find the bookmarks when I get home this evening, will post then 🙂

There's an ebook that's called something like javascript for beginners which'll also be great for you.