JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Good Parts
Book Review: Required reading for JavaScript developers
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book anyone touching JavaScript must read. Learning JavaScript from any other source (book or website) will teach you bad habits that will be difficult to break. Just pretend that JavaScript is the "good" subset that's taught in this book and look up the bad parts as you encounter them in other people's code. Now I've got 1500 lines of JavaScript I have to go back and fix because I didn't read this book two months ago.
Oh, and don't be thrown by other reviewers' complaints that the book is too short. It's just the right size for what it's trying to teach.
Book Review: Second best book on JavaScript
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent book, as it concisely illustrates a number of details that would be impossible to find in other books. Moderate/advanced JavaScript programmers will gain the most from this book, it is not particularly geared towards the beginner.
The book has a very specific focus, so do not be deceived into thinking this book covers the entire language. For information like that, Flanagan's JavaScript The Definitive Guide will be better. This book, however, is an excellent discussion of the important features of the language. Highly recommended.
Book Review: Quality that I expect from O'Reilly
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book that you can easily read in one sitting. It will run you through parts of JavaScript commonly considered "advanced" and help you become a better JavaScript programmer. Unlike other books on JavaScript which seem interested on pretending JavaScript is a weak and dysfunctional cousin of Java, it embraces the JavaScript object model and teaches you to use it correctly.
I would strongly recommend anyone who intends to write JavaScript code read this book.
Book Review: Unique Approach
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book. Mr. Crockford covers a ton of very usable information in a relatively small volume. If you are the kind of developer who likes to be spoon-fed popular programming idioms, you might want to look elsewhere. If you want to master the nuts and bolts of JavaScript, this elegantly condensed and filtered version of the ECMAScript specification is probably for you. I would welcome a similar treatment of Python and Ruby. The author's no BS approach is refreshing.Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to write high-quality code. Such a small book, but it contains so much helpful and substantial information. It doesn't teach you how to write JavaScript code, but how to better write JavaScript code. It describes the great and not so good features of JavaScript and readers can learn how to use this language with all of its features for a best performance.
Thank you Douglas, great work on this book!