The thing about Crockford's book is that it's short and direct, and gives you the straight dope on how you program in JavaScript. It would be a terrible book fo

The thing about Crockford's book is that it's short and direct, and gives you the straight dope on how you program in JavaScript. It would be a terrible book for someone first learning to program, but if you know a few programming languages already -- especially something that supports lexically-scoped anonymous functions -- then JS:tGP is something you can read through in an hour or two, and then just start writing JavaScript.