JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Book Review: Almost Too Thorough. Not the best Choice for Beginners/Creatives
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the book all the JS rockstars out there tend to recommend to people. I don't think it's for everybody personally. It's very thorough and explains JS and its various incarnations at a high level of intricacy that I wouldn't recommend to beginners who are easily distracted (i.e. more heavily creative-brained designers). I'm fairly evenly brained myself and I occasionally found myself zombie-reading as exciting as some of the specifics are too me.
On the other hand, if you want to know just about everything there is to possibly know about JS, this is the book. And that's worth five stars to me.
A good place to get a start with JS if you've never programmed is a decent class or self-teaching the basics online. Then I recommend Jeremy Keith's DOM scripting. Then the Complete Reference. Then this bruiser when you really want get in deep.
Book Review: Dig deep into Javascript
Summary: 5 Stars
The author knows what he is saying.
Although JavaScript is loosely typed and flexible, if you don't know the intention of each of its object and "type", your code will be a mess, and debugging on messy JavaScript code is painful. David Flanagan guides you to avoid that mess.
If you want to know more about the exact inner working (i.e. specification) of the built-in functions of a JavaScript implementation, then ECMA-262: ECMAScript Language Specification would be an excellent friend of this book.
If you are confused sometimes by some design issues of JavaScript, then the book "JavaScript: The good parts" by Douglas Crockford and the tool JsLint of the same author will teach you to use JavaScript in a much cleaner way.
Douglas Crockford recommends only this book.
Book Review: New Edition: Guide for the expert; Reference for all
Summary: 5 Stars
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The new edition of The Definitive Guide represents one more step in the continuing increase in the availability of material on the new ways JavaScript is being implemented.
In the words of the author, "For today's web applications, JavaScript developers are writing programs that are an order of magnitude longer than the scripts that most of us were writing five years ago. The new material on classes and namespaces explains how to structure JavaScript programs and offers techniques for successfully using JavaScript for programming..."
The book is a reference that can be of use to anyone working in JavaScript but it is not a beginner how-to. The book should be seen as a guide for the experienced Web worker, especially those involved in making Web applications.
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Book Review: Never Seen Before
Summary: 5 Stars
I Bought 5 books for Java script but ....
This book realy it's definitive way to learn Java script .
IT'S COVERS :
Scripted HTTP and Ajax
XML processing
Client-side graphics using the canvas tag
Namespaces in JavaScript--essential when writing complex programs
Classes, closures, persistence, Flash, and JavaScript embedded in Java applications
Generate a table of contents for an HTML document
Display DHTML animations
Automate form validation
Draw dynamic pie charts
Make HTML elements draggable
Define keyboard shortcuts for web applications
Create Ajax-enabled tool tips
Use XPath and XSLT on XML documents loaded with Ajax
And much more
Book Review: Latest edition of this guide
Summary: 5 Stars
The last time I bought this was the Second Edition. Boy, a lot has changed since then!
I've mostly avoided Javascript because of platform compatibility issues. These aren't entirely gone now, but it certainly has gotten bette, and this book shows how to get around what remains.
I liked the "no-fluff" writing. David Flanagan covers everything concisely - some reviewers here have complained about lack of examples, but I felt that those given were sufficient.
The basic structure is as it was before (language overview in part I, client side use in browsers in part II) but many subjects have been expanded and there are entire new chapters.
Definitely definitive :-)