Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with JavaScript in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to JavaScript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's JavaScript essentials. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more. Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn! Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through JavaScript and show you what to do. Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time. Page for page, the best content and value around. Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!
Starting with almost no knowledge of javascript, by the time I was done with the book, I felt sufficiently comfortable with the process and ready to ingrain the concepts and implementation process through my own applications.
The writing is dry. Starts off understandable then hits you all of a sudden with this bingo card example and its like "what just happened?" There are JavaScript books for cse (computer science engineers) and then JavaScript books for Designers/front end people. This would be for cse's. Even the Ajax part was made complicated and dry. The examples were dated, though the book was published in 2009. I would try another book unless you enjoy dull reads.