JavaScript the Complete Reference 3rd Edition

This is a GREAT book to learn javascript. It is serious, detailed and though it feels dry and confusing at some points, its job is not to entertain you but to enlighten you in js. This is one MUST have for developers. Buy the book but only if you want to know JS in details. Otherwise, there are easy tutorials and step by step hacks available everywhere.

Good n easy to use

Very good lessons for beginners to experts.Examples and exercises are enough for practice.Overall good book for Javascript beginners and intermediates.

One of the best book I found on JS. Perfect explanation and to the point concept. I feel after completing this I can work professiently on any JS related issues.

Its an amazing book for all type of readers. Beginners should go from starting of the book while professionals could use book for any reference they want.I find it worth it. If you don't know HTML5 and css ,please understand that first. Thanks.

One of the best book for Javascript

It was delivered as promised.

The delivery and publication was just as described. This book is perfect for people who want to use javascript only. Won't help much if you were to use other stuff like NodeJS or AngularJS or similar stuff.

excellent. just what I wanted.

2018-12-01 EDITThis WAS a a great book that served me well for several years. But time, and JavaScript, marches on. So some of the information in this book has become less useful. Not "obsolete" as such, but there have been advances in JavaScript since this otherwise helpful book was published.So while I'll leave my five-stars rating in place for old time's sake, this may no longer be the book you'll want to use to learn JavaScript. Or use as a reference...------I'm not sure how good the older versions of the JavaScript Complete Reference with their orange and black covers were, but this new Third Edition with its blue cover has so far proven to be the most usable and helpful JavaScript book I've found. And I've tried several.What enables this Third Edition to work so well for me is that it contains links to downloadable examples that (a) actually work, and (b) do things one might actually want to do.More specifically, the book's examples of working with HTML pages' DOMs (Chapter 10, especially) were the first such examples I encountered that I could actually make sense of and make use of. Stated another way, I've had all I want to have of books that use wholly theoretical, non-working "examples" to illustrate key concepts, DOM or otherwise.One important contributor to this book's usefulness and helpfulness was its technical editor. The book's technical narrative stays on track, doesn't cloud the discussion with useless hypothetical digressions, and always ties theory to real, working JavaScript examples that enable the reader to learn something both useful and interesting.Long story short, using Firefox's Firebug and Web Developer add-ons, I was able to learn more about actually using JavaScript from this book than from several other JavaScript books combined. The book's working examples provided me with baseline bodies of useful (key word, that) JavaScript code that I could then expand to develop my JavaScript skills and accomplish something I actually wanted to use JavaScript to do.EDIT / ADDENDUM:In the time since I wrote my original review, I've worked on and off with various aspects JavaScript. As I did, JavaScript: The Complete Reference, 3rd edition continued to be a great learning and reference resource.Never has it been more useful than when I recently expanded my JavaScript knowledge by learning AJAX. As was the case with my initial review, the book provides clearly written and useful examples. The book's only omission is that it falls upon the reader to figure out how to set up some sort of test Web server necessary to process HTTP requests. (I suggest taking a look at apachefriend.org's XAMPP or Node.js.)My point is that the book has proven to be better at explaining AJAX than were a couple of books that had the word AJAX, and even the phrase "beginning AJAX" in the title. So my initial satisfaction with this book continues unabated...

I refer to this book very often when scripting JavaScript, it is an excellent reference and probably a great book to learn JavaScript from scratch from. Unfortunately, my copy has long had a broken spine and many pages in the middle are now loose and falling out, not through over use but just through poor paperback binding. I came onto this Amazon page to see if there is a hardback version available now. It beggars belief that there isn't, since it fully deserves one. Come on publishers!

Well worth buying. Much better IMHO than "The Definitive Guide" (which I also have). If you like the "The Complete Reference" series you'll like this one too.

I recently starting learning Javascript and I like this better this most tutorials on the web. Some concepts are the same as other languages but syntax is different obviously This helps you with the most basic concepts to the more advanced topics. I recommend this if you are a programmer and need a quick reference to any topics without consulting the internet as well as a welcome addition to a programmer's library.