Speaking of Douglas Crawford; This recent series on the Yahoo dev site was really insightful. I really appreciated the first and second parts, as im self taught: never having a 'business' reason to teach myself a history of all the programming done before web.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs-1 -Chase On Jun 24, 12:40 am, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug Crockford is great -- he always has thoughtful remarks on > JavaScript and I love his dry humor. I don't know if I would recommend > a MooTools-specific book, however. > > Mr. Newton's book is great, but the rate at which a developer-centric > framework like MooTools changes, I think it's more educational to read > the docs online, and more importantly -- read the source code. People > don't spend enough time reading code. I learned more about MooTools by > reading the source than by any tutorial or anything else out there. > > But books can provide lots of examples and other things like that. I > suppose it depends if you're someone who loves to browse the web and > see how people are using it, or if you want to sit and be spoon-fed > examples and information. > > Tell us what you decide on. > > On Jun 21, 2:33 am, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ++ that book is terrific. > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:34 PM, jiggliemon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just read "Javascript: The Good Parts". I think it's worth having. > > > However, I wish I had gotten it off Amazon used. > > > > - Chase > > > > On Jun 18, 5:21 am, Stodge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just wondering which book you would recommend between: > > > > > MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript™ > > > > and Ajax Development by Aaron Newton > > > > > & > > > > > Pro JavaScript with MooTools by Mark Obcena > > > > > I'm new to MooTools though I have limited JQuery experience and I'm > > > > fairly new to Javascript too. I do have something like 15 years of > > > > professional development experience in numerous other languages > > > > though. I'm not looking for a book that holds my hand - I need a good > > > > reference with real world examples that I can use without having to > > > > read the book. Thanks!
