Best book to go hardcore with JavaScript

[Grimsk]

Any title ?

[mystix]

do an Ext forum search for "amazon"

[aconran]

Here are the titles which I have read in the last year to improve my knowledge of JavaScript.

Aaron

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
By David Flannagan
http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0596101996
This book details every aspect of JavaScript and is definitely not for the light reading. The first half of the book reads more like a textbook and the appendices are excellent references. It has an excellent "client-side javascript reference" as an appendix. If you already understand JavaScript pretty well but truly want to understand scoping issues or javascript idioms which you may encounter, this is a good book. Everything is here, but as I said, it's not light reading.

Pro JavaScript Techniques
By John Resig
http://www.bookpool.com/sm/1590597273
This book is written by the lead developer of jQuery and obviously has a little bit of a slant towards that library. It has has some good material on objects, dom and css navigation.

Ajax and REST Recipes
By Christian Gross
http://www.bookpool.com/sm/1590597346
This book has a lot more information about JavaScript than the title may suggest. The second chapter "JavaScript Recipes" is about 90 pages and includes several recipes for designing JavaScript programs.

Head First Design Patterns
By Freeman & Freeman
http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0596007124
Certainly not a JavaScript book but if you find yourself reading the Ext library source as much as I do you will be able to relate the design patterns in this book to how the library was implemented.

[Grimsk]

Very thnks aconran .. you're then man!;)

i'll give a shot with JavaScript - The definitive guide

[ReyBango]

Great selection Aaron. Also, PPK's book is good as well.

http://www.bookpool.com/ss?qs=ppk+javascript&x=0&y=0

[Foggy]

very usefull, maybe one of you guys can sticky that thread so the community can complete this continuous ;)

[matjaz]

my top selection:
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas (http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764579088.html)
Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10069)

[JeffHowden]

Don't sticky that thread, wiki that thread.

[fjanon]

"Dynamic HTML" by Danny Goodman O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527402/ is a must have. It's my companion book to "Javascript, the definitive guide" by David Flanagan. It became to thick that a few very interesting chapters are now online that anyone can download http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527402/online-sections/

[pyrolupus]

Don't sticky that thread, wiki that thread.

http://extjs.com/learn/Manual:Resources#Dead_Trees

Pyro

[pyrolupus]

Ack, thanks for fixing the library name, Aconran. Obviously, I had jQuery on the brain from working with it earlier today. ^_-

Pyro

[TommyMaintz]

Hey, i think we can add Dustin Diaz's new book:

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns (Paperback)
by Dustin Diaz (Author), Ross Harmes (Author)

to the list of good resources. It's not out yet but knowing him and having learned alot from his examples and screencasts I think it will be a great resource. Also alot of the patterns described in the book are used inside Ext, so I think reading this book will help you learn how to extend Ext components.

Part of the description:
What you’ll learn

* How to apply object-oriented programming techniques in JavaScript
* How to take advantage of inheritance, interfaces, and encapsulation and information hiding to kick-start your JavaScript development
* How to implement several design patterns in your JavaScript projects, including factory, fa

[Grimsk]

Is anyone ever learned anything with a book for CSS ?

[Animal]

Although there's more to web programming than standards, a good resource is the W3 CSS standards: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

Good for learning about selectors, specificity, box models and all that.