I just started out learning javascript, I have read and worked through the missing manual javascript book, which doesn't really delve too deep into javascript. So I picked up the DOM scripting - webdesign with javascript book and it is kinda hard to digest for me and I find myself not really being motivated to thoroughly read and work through this book. Are there any javascript books out there that are somewhere in the middle of those two?
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what are good book on javascript to start out with?
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You don't say what other programming experience you have but I'll assume not much.
In a way previous experience of languages like C, C++, Java or C# will both help and hinder you - help because the individual commands/statements are very similar; a hindrance because Javascript is actually a very different beast from the above languages. This can be seen in a lot of rather poor examples on the web from five or ten years ago that are still being promoted as the way to do things.
Unless you are a natural (and very few are) and just "get it" then a period of learning is in order. Either work through the examples in the book (I don't know what it is like) or think up a project of your own and put things together, searching for help at each sticking point.
Not everyone picks things like programming concepts up in the same way so a particular book that works for me might not work for you and vice versa.
I know it hasn't explicitly answered your question but hope it helps anyway.
In a way previous experience of languages like C, C++, Java or C# will both help and hinder you - help because the individual commands/statements are very similar; a hindrance because Javascript is actually a very different beast from the above languages. This can be seen in a lot of rather poor examples on the web from five or ten years ago that are still being promoted as the way to do things.
Unless you are a natural (and very few are) and just "get it" then a period of learning is in order. Either work through the examples in the book (I don't know what it is like) or think up a project of your own and put things together, searching for help at each sticking point.
Not everyone picks things like programming concepts up in the same way so a particular book that works for me might not work for you and vice versa.
I know it hasn't explicitly answered your question but hope it helps anyway.
Thanks for your input, as you've guessed correctly I have no prior programming experience. I guess it's best to come up with a project and learn as I go along.
As you've stated correctly one book works perfectly for one person, while it doesn't for another. I will try out another book and see, if it works out better.
As you've stated correctly one book works perfectly for one person, while it doesn't for another. I will try out another book and see, if it works out better.
Thanks for the suggestion, I already have an account there and did some of the exercises. One thing I actually like about the DOM scripting book is that it teaches actual things that can be implented(image gallery, video player controls, slideshows). I hopefully will be getting into it more.