Books
- Head First JavaScript Programming
- Eric T Freeman & Elisabeth Robson, O'Reilly, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4493-4013-1
- If you like the artistic, visual approach of the Head First series, this fulfills that approach for JavaScript
- Head First JQuery
- Ryan Bendetti & Ronan Cranley, O'Reilly, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-449-39321-2
- This book extends the JavaScript approach of Head First JavaScript Programming into the JQuery framework
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
- David Flanagan, O'Reilly, 2011, ISBN:978-0-596-80552-4
- Example Code website: oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805531
- Note: 7th edition should be released in 2020
- This is a classic reference work, and will be preferred by those who like comprehensive references
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- Douglas Crockford, O'Reilly, 2008, 978-0-596-51774-8
- Crockford's JavaScript web site: javascript.crockford.com
- This book prescribes certain practices that make programming JavaScript safer. Several of the coding conventions for our
course originated with this work
- Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design
- Larry Ullman, Peachpit Press, 2012, 978-0321812520
- Eloquent JavaScript
- Marjin Haverbeke, eloquentjavascript.net
- A few examples for the course have their origin here. Probably not a first book, but worth a read. Available online for browsing
- Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
- Nicholas C. Zakas, Wrox, 2012, 978-1118026694
More Advanced Books
Here are a couple of books that I've found interesting and relevant:
- Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
- github.com/MostlyAdequate
- mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide
- This is a fun read and introduction to the principles of functional programming, an underpinning of JavaScript
- The first reference is to the GitHub source for the book; pre-compiled versions are available at the second source
- D3 for the Impatient
- Philipp K. Janert, O'Reilly, 2019
- D3 (d3js.org) is a JavaScript library which aids in transforming data to display graphically in the DOM.
- This book uses examples and a relatively recent release of D3 to explore how to use D3 to achieve wonderful displays.
For those interested in more in-depth exploration, there is a series of O'Reilly books released by Kyle Simpson.
These can help you explore the concepts of JavaScript in a way that will enhance your understanding:
- You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures
- O'Reilly, March 2014
- You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes
- O'Reilly, July 2014
- You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar
- O'Reilly, September 2014
- You Don't Know JS: Asynch & Performance
- O'Reilly, October 2014
- You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond
- O'Reilly, March 2015
- You Don't Know JS: Up & Going
- O'Reilly, April 2015