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Ask YC: Which Javascript Book?
I have a good understanding of the basics of js and use it everyday on a current project. I am looking to expand and formalize my knowledge of it so I have been researching books.
I have mostly narrowed it down to Javascript: The Definitive Guide and Javascript: The Good Parts
What are your opinions on these two books or others?
- coliveira 18y agoI read Javascript: The Definitive Guide and found it a very insightful book. I really recommend it. For Javascript: The Good Parts, I watched a video of the author on youtube, and the ideas seem very interesting. I didn't have an opportunity to read the book, though.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoMy advice: Read the good parts version. Then read The Princess Bride so that you know the joke behind the title Javascript: The Good Parts. Then read the definitive guide. I have the definitive guide, and I'm told it's really good, and I will state that it definitively occupies lots of space on my shelf and that I definitively plan to read it someday. Meanwhile, I've only actually opened it a handful of times, mostly to look up some API function or other. Crockford, on the other hand, I have actually read, and he's really good.
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