I would be really wary of reading through the w3schools JavaScript guides first. You'll learn programming basics (which, as an experienced developer, you won't

I would be really wary of reading through the w3schools JavaScript guides first. You'll learn programming basics (which, as an experienced developer, you won't need), but not much about what makes JavaScript so interesting. And many of the coding practices you'll see at w3schools are painfully outdated and/or just bad practices. Basically, if you're reading a JavaScript guide and it mentions document.write(), run away. The MDC guides are much, much better. And Crockford's book is best. There are also fantastic explanations of the Event model at PPK's Quirksmode site. Start here and read through all of his Event articles: http://quirksmode.org/js/events_early.html http://quirksmode.org/js/events_early.html