The best JavaScript book(s) you've read

[codeexploiter]

I am trying to find out the most popular JavaScript books used by programmers. You can name your favorite JavaScript titles here, the ones you feel a must have for a programmer or a budding programmer(s).

My favorite JavaScript books are the following:

1. The Definitive Guide JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan

2. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas

3. The Complete Reference JavaScript: The Complete Reference by Thomas A. Powell and Fritz Schneider

[Twey]

The only one I've felt worth reading was #1 on your list.

[BLiZZaRD]

Sam's teach yourself JavaScript (in 24 hours) or something like that I think it was.. I need to get another copy.

[Twey]

Don't bother :)

[BLiZZaRD]

Don't bother :)

:D What makes this funny, is in one of our email communications I asked you this exact question and the Sams teach yourself was the one you told me to get hahahahaa.

[Twey]

Really? I suspect that may have been before I read it. Their Java book was of acceptable quality.

[BLiZZaRD]

It was about a year or year and a half ago :)

[Twey]

Yep, I was probably recommending it on the basis of the Java book then.

[djr33]

I love the 24 hours series. Not all of them are great (and I don't know the programming side too much, as I've used mostly the guides for the video applications I use), but I found most of them very helpful. //shrug

I recommend you stay far away from the For Dummies books. I've never found one that is in any way for dummies... they sorta repeat everything twice and then act like it makes sense... still doesn't. Or, if it does, you don't really need the book.

[Rockonmetal]

i have two dummies books, one is a generic webdesign and the other is advanced php and mysql functions *creating CSM, Shopping Carts, logins, and other stuff* but i've wanted to learn Java myself... but its too "Formal" for me...

[BLiZZaRD]

I have quite a few "for dummies" books. I don't tout them, but I don't hide them either. I think with any "self-teaching" book you have to take everything with a grain of salt.

One I have (Screenwriting for Dummies) I have read when I first started writing scripts, not for all the information on the histories and procedures, but because script writing is a very particular style, everything must be done a certain way.. I got that information out of it, and read the rest as an "opinion" and took it as such.

I think you have to do that with any book, get the root information, the stuff that won't change and use that, then read the rest for entertainment, and perhaps you will learn something from that.