*Newbie* alert

i want to learn javascript

[humpingdan]

whats that best way to learn javascript? are there many online tutorials i could read or go through? perhaps there are some books that come highly recommended?

thanks
Dan

[coopster]

>>whats that best way to learn javascript?
Dig in.

>>are there many online tutorials i could read or go through?
Loads of them. There are TONS of sample scripts too. You may want to visit a site such as h**p://javascript.internet.com/ and pick an interesting topic. Copy the script into a text editor and analyze it.
Or you could visit h**p://wdvl.com/Authoring/JavaScript/ and take some tutorials.

>>perhaps there are some books that come highly recommended?
I like Danny Goodman's JavaScript Bible

[korkus2000]

>>I like Danny Goodman's JavaScript Bible

Best Javascript book I ever read. Definitely suggest it. Also hanging around this and other JS forums and looking at the code posted will help you get your feet wet.

[dcrombie]

My best reference for years was a JavaScript 1.0 manual. It's not such an issue now, but when M$ was <doing what it does> to Netscape you couldn't trust anything above that to work. Apart from some image rollovers (JS1.1) and DHTML menus (JS1.2) most of what I use is vanilla JS.