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by pickle » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:01 pm
Hi all,
I'm looking to get a good Javascript book. Money is no object .
Any ideas?
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by Gambler » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:04 pm
O'Reilly's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.
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by feyd » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:05 pm
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by Roja » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:43 pm
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by Luke » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:50 pm
There is a lot of praise for O'Reilly's on this site. Would you guys recommend O'Reilly's in general, or just for javascript?
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by Chris Corbyn » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:05 pm
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:
There is a lot of praise for O'Reilly's on this site. Would you guys recommend O'Reilly's in general, or just for javascript?
The only O'Reilly's book I ever read was a regular expressions book. I learned regex in a day. I thought the book was pretty good.
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by feyd » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:20 pm
Every single O'Reilly book I've ever read has been well done. A great number of books in my personal library are O'Reilly for that reason.
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by Roja » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:41 pm
The Ninja Space Goat wrote: There is a lot of praise for O'Reilly's on this site. Would you guys recommend O'Reilly's in general, or just for javascript?
I find their books to be generally higher in quality than the normal computer book, so I would recommend them in general. I did run across one I didn't like particularly, but I cannot recall for the life of me which one. I've owned about 6 so far, so thats a heck of a good track record.
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by pickle » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:44 pm
Hmm, seems like O'Reilly's it is. Thanks!
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