JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Good Parts
Book Review: Best book on JavaScript I have seen
Summary: 5 Stars
JavaScript is a quirky language. Almost functional, sort of Object Oriented, C'ish style language, little bit of this, little bit of that. All around strange.
The one thing I had been missing all of these years was a guide to help with this language. What features to embrace, what features to avoid. This book is that guide.
If you are interested in writing better JavaScript, then you should get this book. It will be evaluable to you.
Book Review: Lends expertise to the topic
Summary: 5 Stars
JavaScript was developed in a hurry before it could be refined, and thus has more 'bad parts' than most programming languages. Senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! Douglas Crockford in JavaScript: The Good Parts lends expertise to the topic (he's considered a key expert by many in the field) and provides a survey of the language which enables effective code development. Any library strong in Java development and analysis needs JAVASCRIPT: THE GOOD PARTS.Book Review: Brilliant book
Summary: 5 Stars
If you already know that you need to escape a for each with hasOwnProperties, this book is not for you.
If, on the other hand, you're an experienced programmer who's just realizing that you need to get serious about JavaScript, this is a book you should have on your shelf next to the Rhino book by Flanagan. I've probably read mine about as much as the K&R book when I started on C.
Book Review: Not a beginner's book, but
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not a book for non-programmers or people new to the field. It is a very dense yet approachable review of the very succinct and elegant language inside of what commonly is thought of as JavaScript. Highly recommended if you have previously thought negative things about JavaScript and want to improve you JavaScript skills, especially for those who favor elegant code.Book Review: A Great Book on how to write Javascript
Summary: 5 Stars
Javascript is so easy to misuse - specially for people like me that have a Java background. This book has a bit of "what can you do with Javascript" but it is the "how should you go about using javascript" parts that really help when starting to write bigger Javascript applications. The book isn't that long, but somehow it covers many important topics for its length.