Lich

I'll be honest here, I suck at javascript. PHP, CSS, Java, PERL are my strongest pointes and even Ruby I get to an extent. But with javascript i'm lost on a lot of it. I can work my way through some scripts but I need to take my skills to the next level with this one. I'm sick of just using embedded or downloaded scripts and frustratingly try to customize them, I want to start building my own stuff.

If anybody has any specific book reccomendations on javascript books I'd appreciate it (specific, not "any o'riely book" please). It seems like everything is really bad and simplistic or will run me about $40-$50. ouch.

Thanks.

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Mocker

Just google search for "javascript references" . Javascript is can be unforgiving sometimes with syntax, it seems like I run into a lot of little things with it, but if you already know Perl and Java then the hardest part is just making sure you dont mix up the syntaxes (I did that way too much). If you arent sure about basic syntax, dont get a big script to customize, get a script that rotates images or something simple like that.

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bl00dninja

www.htmlgoodies.com has an awesome tutorial that takes you through all the basics just like any programming language book. then go to amazon.com and get the javascript bible. if you search it used you can get it for about $2.00 american i believe. (albeit an older edition) i think the regular book is about 40-50 bucks.

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bja888

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076...books&v=glance
This is the one I learned from. I haven't opened it in like 3 years now so I can't really tell you how good it is. Although, it got me very far...

Lich

yah, I was bidding on the javascript bible on ebay, got outbid at the last minute, thing sold for like $15 with free shipping, twas quite sad. 4th edition is only $4 like you said, maybe i'll pick that up if there's no real difference in the versions (hell, they'll all be out of date in a few years anyways, right?)

Bry, i'll check out the wrox one too, I do like the way they do their books (better than o'reily in some aspects), I got their PHP graphics handbook.

Thanks for the quick responses

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DaWei

Forty or fifty bucks is an expensive hamburger, but cheap tuition. Personally, I use the O'Reilly one the most. Nothing really old will be comprehensive enough if you decide to do more than scratch the surface.

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Lich

You're telling me. I had to take a javascript class for my degree. That class was awful. We used a shelly/Cashman book which essentially tought me nothing, when I sold it back I got a whopping $3 back for it. The damn class cost me $700 and I learned nothing other than what you said, scrated the surface. Learned how to make images change and set cookies and stuff like that.

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