Recommended Books
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DOM Scripting:
Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
Jeremy Keith
Friends of Ed, 2005
ISBN: 1-59059-533-5
Highly recommended as your first JavaScript book
following completion of this course. It exposes a variety
of intermediate level topics in JavaScript and presents several
“best practice” concepts.
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PPK on JavaScript Modern,
accessible, unobtrusive JavaScript explained by means of eight
real-world examples scripts
Peter-Paul Koch
New Riders, 2007
ISBN: 0-321-42330-5
Highly recommended as your second JavaScript
book following completion of this course. Teaches best-practice
techniques through real-world examples.
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JavaScript Concepts & Techniques Programming
Interactive Web Sites
Tina Spain McDuffie
Franklin, Beedle & Associates, 2003
ISBN: 1-887902-69-4
If you want a more traditional textbook approach to learning
JavaScript, this is textbook that I have previously used
in this course.
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JavaScript Design
William B. Sanders
New Riders, 2002
ISBN: 0-7357-1167-4
A bit more advanced in level and coverage than our required textbook. If you
have prior programming experience, or are finding the course textbook a bit
too elementary, you might try this book as a supplement.
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JavaScript by Example The Complete Guide to JavaScript
Ellie Quigley
Prentice Hall/PTR, 2004
ISBN: 0-13-140162-9
Roughly equivalent in level and coverage to the required textbook for this course.
If you are having trouble understanding the required textbook and/or would like
to have more examples of JavaScript code to study, you might want to explore this
option.
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JavaScript for the World Wide Web 4th Edition
Visual Quickstart Guide
Tom Negrino and Dori Smith
Peachpit Press , 2001
ISBN: 0201735172
Not as detailed or complete as some of the other titles listed here, but a the
“cookbook” approach, makes it easy to look up solutions to specific
tasks a JavaScript programmer is likely to encounter.
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JavaScript Programming for the
Absolute Beginner
Andy Harris
Prima Tech, 2001
ISBN: 0-7615-3410-5
This is another former textbook for the course. It’s less of a textbook approach than the
McDuffie text. It provides a great introduction to basic programming concepts in JavaScript, but
unfortunately it is too dated to use when teaching current JavaScript practices. Also, the last
few chapters rely on an old gaming library that is incompatible with current browsers. Students
may want to check with me prior to purchasing this particular option.
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Beginning JavaScript 2nd Edition
Paul Wilton
Wrox Press, 2004
ISBN: 0-7645-5587-1
Both broad and deep coverage of JavaScript. Written at a level suitable
for beginners, yet covers the language in detail.
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