What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript

There’s a discussion going on on the JSMentors JavaScript mailing list about books to read to get you to the next level . There’s been a lot of great feedback and suggestions thrown out and I wanted to offer up what I felt were good to carry you through the learning process. While I list a number of books in the Big List page that I created , narrowing it down into specific levels makes a lot of sense. Note that some resources will overlap between levels. That should be expected as some books cover a wide breadth of language features. Also, I am NOT covering blogs in this post, only books (print and online). These are books that I’ve read over the years and found incredibly useful so I’m categorizing them to make it easier for you to get going. Introductory These are books that will give you the fundamentals of the JavaScript language and get you started: JavaScript: The Good Parts Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) ppk on JavaScript, 1/e Intermediate

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Easel JS: A Javascript Library for Working with the HTML5 Canvas Element. Recent Updates Follow @CreateJS November 2014 Updates in preparation for next release (coming soon).New class model, with big performance increases October 2014 Lots of bug fixes and pull requests.New 'Extras' folder in GitHub with useful tools and classes The Complete Javascript Number Reference Filed: Mon, Apr 30 2007 under Programming|| Tags: reference javascript numbers number math Javascript is not a typed language so it should come as no surprise that there are no specific integer or floating-point types, no short, long, byte, double, or any other type other languages use to define numbers. All numbers in Javascript are 64bit (8 bytes) floating point numbers which yields an effective range of 5e-324 (negative) to 1.7976931348623157e+308 (positive). This reference will cover Javascript numeric literals and objects as well as the default Javascript Operators which manipulate those numbers.

Fluent-Style Programming in JavaScript - sellsbrothers.com Saturday, Dec 11, 2010, 5:57 PM I’ve been playing around with JavaScript a great deal lately and trying to find my way. I last programmed JS seriously about 10 years ago and it’s amazing to me how much the world has changed since then. audio.js It uses native <audio> where available and an invisible flash player to emulate <audio> for other browsers. It provides a consistent html player UI to all browsers which can be styled used standard css. Installation Put audio.js, player-graphics.gif & audiojs.swf in the same folder. Include the audio.js file: <script src="/audiojs/audio.min.js"></script> Initialise audio.js: <script> audiojs.events.ready(function() { var as = audiojs.createAll(); }); </script> Then you can use <audio> wherever you like in your HTML: <audio src="/mp3/juicy.mp3" preload="auto" /> Examples

Web Inspector: Understanding Stack Traces Posted by Yury Semikhatsky on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 at 7:32 am Finding errors in JavaScript code both during application development and when it’s already released is an important part of web development. We’ve recently added a mechanism for handling uncaught JavaScript exceptions and made some improvements in the tools that allow you to work with stack traces. Now it’s a good time to summarize the ways one can deal with exceptions and stack traces in WebKit. Tracking exceptions

Let's Make a Framework: Free eBook eBook I've collected and edited the Let's Make a Framework articles into a book that suitable for e-readers. Consider this a Christmas present! Note: Remember that this book is based on progress up to commit 09d2c3. Organizing A jQuery Application - Jupiter JavaScript Consulting Earlier this week, I realized that every organizing-a-jQuery-application blog, article, and conference talk misses the most important lesson on how to organize a jQuery app. They talk about how to organize an individual widget or piece of functionality, but not how you can break up an application into logically separate and testable components. Separation of concerns is the bedrock of software engineering. It is the best way to achieve a quality, error free, and maintainable project. Think about it … If your code’s logic is isolated, how much damage does making an incorrect decision do?

Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners I would like to thank Rebecca Murphey for inspiring me to open-source this mini-book and release it for free download and distribution - making knowledge both open and easily available is something we should all strive for where possible. I would also like to extend my thanks to the very talented Alex Sexton who was kind enough to be the technical reviewer for this publication. I hope that it helps you learn more about design patterns and the usefulness of their application to JavaScript. Volume 2 of Essential JavaScript Design Patterns is currently being written and will be more detailed than this first edition. The ETA for it's online release is late Q4, 2011. For more detailed coverage of specific patterns, you may be interested in my posts on the Pub/Sub (Observer) or Decorator patterns.