JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
by David Flanagan
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Book Reviews of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Book Review: excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
A must be on your IT library. The author explains you not only what to do, but how the javascript itself works so you can understand the whole picture. After reading this book my javascript code dramatically improved
The only weakness of the book is the DOM section, which is basically a review. If you are looking for unobtrusive javascript i recommend you:
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
Book Review: begginers
Summary: 2 Stars
I just read first few chapters of this book. Good news is that the material is expressed in an accessible manner. However if you have an interest in programming languages and trying to read this book as JavaScript language tutorial or reference things like "lambda functions" (should be "lambda expressions"), or discussions about how (in authors view) JS interreter "inserts semicolums" (it does not. whitespace is used as token separator while parsing) make it look pretty bad.
Book Review: superb
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is indeed the definitive guide. The author does a superb job of explaining intermediate and advanced concepts of javascript programming. The examples are very practical and worth studying. This book will help you master javascript programming.
It is, however, not for beginners. The author assumes you have at least some programming experience in general. The author also assumes you want to know the intricacies of advanced javascript programming.
Book Review: Good introductory and reference book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book could easily serve as an introductory text to JavaScript. It offers enough depth for beginning JavaScript. Unfortunately, it does not delve enough into things like closure, which I believe is a very important language features. Furthermore, after the first or second reading, this book can handily serve as a reference book since part 3 and 4 of this book is reference to the classes, methods, and functions that are available in most JavaScript implementation.Book Review: So good I've worn it out.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this book for a few years now and I think I've about worn it out and need to get another copy. I took it to work and my whole department borrows it on a weekly basis. It's very handy and covers almost everything you would need to know (from a professional level) about javascript. It's the "definitive guide" though, so you probably don't want to read this one cover to cover unless you're a robot. For anyone looking for a technical reference this is great.