PPK on JavaScript
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Whether you're an old-school scripter who needs to modernize your JavaScripting skills or a standards-aware Web developer who needs best practices and code examples, you'll welcome this guide from a JavaScript master.Other JavaScript books use example scripts that have little bearing on real-world Web development and are useful only in the chapter at hand. In contrast, Peter-Paul Koch's book uses eight real-world scripts he created for real-world clients in order to earn real-world money. That means the scripts are guaranteed to do something useful (and sellable!) that enhances the usability o
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JS: The Good Parts is will be a quick and informative read if you've already done a bit of JS programming. Once you're done with that, the next book I'd read is ppk on Javascript (http://www.amazon.com/ppk-JavaScript-1-Peter-Paul-Koch/dp/03...), as it's the only JS book I've found that talks at length about the BOM (browser object model). Finally, once you're comfortable with…
on “Ask HN: JavaScript book recommendations?” ↗Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into HTML5" book draft: http://diveintohtml5.org/ ppk on JavaScript: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html Mozilla's documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/HTML5 CSS3 Preview: http://www.css3.info/preview/ HTML5 draft specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/
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