Obviously JavaScript: the good parts is a piece of seminal work and really got people to think of JavaScript as a respectable technology. As well JavaScript the

Obviously JavaScript: the good parts is a piece of seminal work and really got people to think of JavaScript as a respectable technology. As well JavaScript the definitive guide is good. Further, I generally recommend that people learn jQuery or Dojo first and then dip into pure JavaScript. The reason being, is that the code base has been heavily peer reviewed, most bad practices get rejected from commits. As well, most of the documentation, uses sound patterns. Think of it as coding JavaScript with training wheels. It will focus your learning on the good parts of JavaScript.