# Any good Javascript learning book recommendations?

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I’m looking for a good book on learning javascript to help round out my  
webdev skills. Any opinions on what the best book to get to learn would  
be?

Thanks for any suggestions!

–  
Terry (TAD) Donaghe  
[http://www.tadspot.com](http://www.tadspot.com)

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-good-javascript-learning-book-recommendations/68735/2 "2006-09-15T00:50:45Z")

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Professional JavaScript for Web D.s (Wrox Professional Guides)  
from Nicholas C. Zakas is not that bad.

marcel

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-good-javascript-learning-book-recommendations/68735/3 "2006-09-15T01:02:48Z")

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:28:34PM -0700, Terry D. wrote:

> I’m looking for a good book on learning javascript to help round out my  
> webdev skills. Any opinions on what the best book to get to learn would be?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!

The O’Reilly book “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”. The author  
understands closures, 'nuff said.

## Michael

Michael Darrin Chaney  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[http://www.michaelchaney.com/](http://www.michaelchaney.com/)

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-good-javascript-learning-book-recommendations/68735/4 "2006-09-15T01:38:50Z")

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I am using “Dynamic HTML: The Definite Reference” from O’Reilly  
The best source of cross-browser DOM, CSS and some intro on JavaScript.

All the Best!  
Sergey.

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-good-javascript-learning-book-recommendations/68735/5 "2006-09-15T06:17:09Z")

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On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:45 PM, lanzm wrote:

> Professional JavaScript for Web D.s (Wrox Professional Guides)  
> from Nicholas C. Zakas is not that bad.

I’ll second this book. The author has some strange ideas, but has  
good info and reasonably well presented.

-Brian