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Recommended Books

Cover of DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith
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.
Cover of PPK on JavaScript by Peter-Paul Koch
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.
Cover of JavaScript Concepts & Techniques by Tina Spain McDuffie
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.
Cover of JavaScript Design by William B. Sanders
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.
Cover of JavaScript by Example by Ellie Quigley
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.