Javascript Book Recommendations

[jloyphoto]

Can any recommend books on working with Javascript? I've worked with it on basic level, but I'm looking for something that would serve as a solid reference source.

Thanks.

[dryicerx]

Originally Posted by jloyphoto

Can any recommend books on working with Javascript? I've worked with it on basic level, but I'm looking for something that would serve as a solid reference source.

Thanks.

O'Reilly Javascript Definitive Guide would probably be a good desk reference.

But you can also equally get by with w3school.com or the myriad of other online references... their free, available all the time, and updated constantly.

[jloyphoto]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have plenty of bookmarks online, just hoping to find something in print with everything combined.

(Yeah, I know...wishful thinking).

[RKEnnis]

Strongly agree with the "O'Reilly Javascript Definitive Guide" recommendation! It's the javascript bible, IMO. The online ECMAScript reference is very good as well if you require a deep view of the language.

I've written thousands of lines of Javascript code, and maintained a huge commercial site written entirely in Javascript, on both the server and the client (yeah, I know... it was ugly)

[ngoduyviet]

Originally Posted by RKEnnis

Strongly agree with the "O'Reilly Javascript Definitive Guide" recommendation! It's the javascript bible, IMO.

I've written thousands of lines of Javascript code, and maintained a huge commercial site written entirely in Javascript, on both the server and the client (yeah, I know... it was ugly)

Server side javascript? you mean servlet? yah that is ugly, and I don't envy you :)

I 3rd that O'reilly book. Also, learning any scripting or programming language is faster if you start practicing it. Make up a small project for yourself and implement it with your language of choice.

W3 has a pretty good tutorial section for javascript with an editor that you can use if you don't want to write it in notepad and execute with your browser.

[dryicerx]

Originally Posted by ngoduyviet

Server side javascript? you mean servlet? yah that is ugly, and I don't envy you :)

haha, so true, I doubt anyone wanting to keep their sanity using Servelets :p But there's a new wave of new server side JS usages thanks to the v8 engine, such as Node.js and for things like running db-side code in MongoDB <3

I am not a big fan of js, but the v8 engine makes it so damn fast, it's actually a fitting usage.

[RKEnnis]

Naw, what we were doing wasn't even as "glamorous" as servlets - we were basically doing legacy ASP code using JavaScript on the server side instead of VBScript. Lots of ADO calls to various flavors of relational DMS. I was on a team of folks maintaining over 500mb of javascript source code. That's a LOT of code!

That was "back in the day". Later on, we moved to using the WebSphere app server, and writing real java code (servlets /w the Struts framework). Even then, though I wrote a lot of javascript for the client side stuff, and all the ajax code...

Javascript is pretty easy to learn, but it also makes it easy to write code that is hard to maintain!

[dryicerx]

Originally Posted by RKEnnis

Naw, what we were doing wasn't even as "glamorous" as servlets - we were basically doing legacy ASP code using JavaScript on the server side instead of VBScript. Lots of ADO calls to various flavors of relational DMS. I was on a team of folks maintaining over 500mb of javascript source code. That's a LOT of code!

That was "back in the day". Later on, we moved to using the WebSphere app server, and writing real java code (servlets /w the Struts framework). Even then, though I wrote a lot of javascript for the client side stuff, and all the ajax code...

Javascript is pretty easy to learn, but it also makes it easy to write code that is hard to maintain!

You have my sympathy for having to deal with that lol