+1 to "Professional Javascript for Web Developer". It is excellent read. Also, once you finish that - it is worth reading "High Performance Javascript", by Zakas again.
-Amit On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Patrick Horgan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/03/2011 07:31 AM, Anatoly Geyfman wrote: > > what do you mean by "advanced level JS"? I think building applications > > is the best way to learn javascript, and while you're building these > > apps, read up on best practices and follow what JS experts recommend > > (twitter is great for this). I'd also recommend you pick up > > Javascript: the best parts, it's a great primer on what works in > > javascript and some basic building blocks of valid, maintainable JS code. > I didn't care much for it. Crockford is brilliant, but he's not a good > explicator. I think he understands this, in the beginning of the > document he talks about it's terseness and encourages readers to reread > until they get it. It's definitely got some valuable stuff in it, but > it's a lot harder to wade through than it needed to be. That said > though, he agrees completely with me on style and substance so he must > be wonderful;) I recommend you have it if you're going to be in the > field, but I'd get the book I talk about in the next paragraph if you > could only buy one. > > I strongly recommend Zakas' "Professional Javascript For Web > Developers". He covers much of Crockford's stuff, giving credit where > credit is due, but does a much better job of describing it. And of > course the scope of the book is much grander, covering cross-browser > issues dealing with web stuff and just about everything you'd need to be > a grand master of the browser end of web development;) > > Patrick > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
