Preserved Topic: learning javascript

Does anyone know where can I learn javascript?

bms - i do really rock!

Believe it or not "JavaScript for dummies" is pretty good - it's got a really
good set of sections on timers, DOM, and ACCURATE examples - watch out for SAMS books - the text is good but the examples (at least in the books I bought) are usually bogus.


Good Luck,

Dynamic Duo. Do a search you will find it. That is not plain JavaScript but more DHTML, teaches you in an easy to use manner. Helps you to get doing stuff. I have the O'Riely and have read it cover to cover, but I use it more as a reference guide than as a tutor in creating things. I learn by example. JS is client side, so you get to see the code that is doing things for you.

The hardest part of JS is that it changes so damned fast, each new browser release makes some changes, that you have to account for... it is a hassel.

i have heard that ECMAScript changes less often than javascript, would it be better to learn ECMAScript?? and are there any online tutorials for it?

~velvetrose

Simply said: JavaScript = ECMAScript. ECMAScript is only an attempt to standardize JavaScript syntax (it doesn't include anything about Document Object Model, i.e. DHTML)

Actually, mr max, I'd say JavaScript == ECMAScript, using a double equals, since we're not assigning anything here, are we?

I wanted to write it that way (actually I wanted to use "eq", since I'm in the PERL mood), but then again since those people asked how to learn JavaScript I decided to use the "normal" way to explain it...

thanx, but i wanted to learn it online, since i already have some programming skillz with C and Pascal...
Just don't have money to buy books and stuff
Things are hard when you are 16 and keep spending money on punk rock albuns...

you will have to buy at least one book sometime soon because nobody teaches you that for free. not even online. but if you can read and stick to a thing. read ozones handson. also, in the asylum ring, there is a person called catgirl who can give has pretty nice tutorials.
as the first book you buy I recommend javascript for dummies and/or O'reills Dhtml.

k10

I found this site to be a pretty good site to look at while you're waiting for your amazon.com book order to come in.

thanx folks!
guess i will buy the dummies book since it is cheap here (and i am a dummie)...
and prety nice site...