Resources for Learning JavaScript

As JavaScript has become the lingua franca of the Web (not to mention mobile devices), a vast number of informative books, courses, and sites devoted to it have appeared. Here are a few that I recommend:

• If you’re new to programming altogether, check out the interactive tutorial site Codecademy.^[6]

• If you’re coming from another language and want to get up and running with JavaScript as a language for scripting the browser, take the interactive jQuery Air courses on CodeSchool.^[7]

• If you want a more formal introduction to the JavaScript language, absorb Marijn Haverbeke’s Eloquent JavaScript.^[8]

• If you’re a JavaScript beginner who wants to level up and avoid common pitfalls, spend some time in the JavaScript Garden.^[9]