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Ask YC: Recommend me *the* best Javascript book/reference
What's the very best Javascript book that you know of?
I'm specifically looking for one that goes into modern Javascript techniques, similar to the prototype crowd.
- muriithi 19y agoO'Reilly's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide 5th Edition" by David Flanagan teaches Javascript really well including Ajax and DOM. The first half of the book is a Javascript tutorial while the rest is a language reference. Good book.
- kirubakaran 19y agoAnd, after reading the Definitive Guide: http://www.packtpub.com/jquery/book http://www.packtpub.com/jquery/book
- joshwa 19y agoDidn't we just cover this? Yes, yes we did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61311 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61311
- juwo 19y agoexcept that the free download link for the pdf mentioned has since been removed. inurl:javascript.the.definitive.guide filetype:pdf
- whalesalad 19y agoBest book hands down for learning JS is called Simply Javascript from Sitepoint written by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams.
- champion 19y agoTake a look at the videos on Yahoo by Douglas Crockford on the Javascript Programming Language, and his "Advanced Javascript". Very well presented. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/