JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Good Parts
Book Review: Crock Attack!
Summary: 5 Stars
In a JavaScript world that starts imitating the J2EE of past years (with the rising of several frameworks that do the same thing) this book stands out like a lifesaver.
In a dense (but always clear) writing style, Crock's work will teach you how to built solid basis for advanced JS applications by using only the very good parts of the language.
If you are going to become a JS Ninja, save your time: don't go with a fat book, read this one (it takes one week) and follow the online API of the framework of your choice (believe me: Prototype and JQuery do not need any additional book) and you'll be on your way with a 1000-shurikens arsenal!
Book Review: Should be on the Bookshelf of Every JavaScript developer
Summary: 5 Stars
Someone once said that JavaScript is like a scalpel--in the wrong hands it's dangerous, but in the hands of a surgeon, it provides incredible power. Here, author Douglas Crockford continues his decade-long evangelism of the world's most popular web-based language and shows you how to avoid cutting yourself while illustrating the adeptness of the language. Crockford deconstructs the language into the bad parts that you should avoid (with, eval, continue, new, void, etc.) and the good parts to embrace in order to create scalable, secure, enterprise-class code. After you've read a good intro book on JavaScript, this should be your next stop.
Book Review: Excellent Resource for JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll keep this short and sweet (like the book). This book distills the JavaScript language down to the bare essentials that a programmer will need to write clean, powerful code. It even tells you what to avoid along the way. Douglas Crockford takes a veritable pig of a language and turns it into delicious ham, bacon, and chops.
For someone serious about JavaScript, there are two books to own. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide to learn the language and its syntax (in minute detail), and this book, to learn how to use the language well.
Book Review: Learning JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
A must read for any web-developer. Having worked with JavaScript for a number of years in an ad-hoc fashion (AJAX, Firefox extensions, etc), this book has finally brought me the closure and understanding of the quirks and tricks of the language. Do not let the size of the book deceive you as Douglas Crockford manages to pack a lot of hard-earned wisdom into very few pages. In fact, this is not a book for beginners.
Best of all, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" will make you a better programmer. Just reading the book I've managed to spot at least half a dozen patterns and improvements to my own JavaScript code. Highly recommended.
Book Review: Rediscover JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of my career has been focused on server components in static typed languages like C++ and Java. I incorrectly viewed JavaScript as a flawed toy language for making browsers perform dynamic actions. "The Good Parts" shows that while there are definitely flaws, the language is not a toy. The techniques shown in this book have been a great help as I've become more and more of a JavaScript programmer. This is a slim book, but it's very dense. If you're like me you will read it multiple times. I don't agree this is terse just to be terse - he just doesn't beat ideas into you with repetition.