Ajax in Action

DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM

Foundations of Ajax (Foundation)

Java

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Professional Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Nicholas C. Zakas
ReleaseDate: 22 April, 2005
Publisher: Wrox
Rating:

Excellent Presentation
The author does a very, very good job at explaining and this is what makes this book great. I think you can find several other JavaScript books that contain the same technical material as this book but this book's strength, in my opinion, is the author's delivery. His explanations were very thorough and he seemed to anticipate my questions. I don't usually like the Wrox books but this one is a winner.

It's obvious that the author has a Java background because he often compares Java to JavaScript. The author does not rely upon or expect his reader to know Java though, but if you do you will find his comparisons useful.

The only (minor) negative aspect of this book is that the author spends the first four chapters presenting the core JavaScript language but it's not until chapter 5 that he shows you how to actually *run* JavaScript code in a browser. Now, many readers will already know how to do this but if you don't you might be a little anxious to run the code in chapters 1-4. I feel this is a very minor criticism though and it does not detract from the book's five-star rating, in my opinion.

I have been able to learn the language in a week
I have done a lot of Java/J2EE and iSeries programming. I have been doing programming for many years. Recently I was given a project which needed JavaScript to be implemented. The Nicholas' book on JavaScript allowed me to learn the language in a week up to the point to be able to produce a production level code. Excellent work!.

It's worth to read
Besides the loosely type and debugging, there are many differences between browsers. It's tough as a javascript programmer. you must be familiar with BOM(browser object model), DOM(document object model) and HTML,then could become a just good(not well, not enough) programmer of javascript. There are many things needs to know. . . . . . . .
This book is for the programmer with some background of the above, besides some programming experience of other OO language. If only the other OO language, you may be confused about many codes digests which mix different BOM, standard DOM, and HTML without annotation.
There are many new skill and information about the upgraded javascript and the comparative implement of different browsers for a javascript programmer. It's great. Highly commend!.