Beginning JavaScript

Rating:
Summary: Good for beginners
Review: I chose this book as my introduction to JavaScript and am quite pleased with it. It pretty well covers all the basics and is worth a straight-through read. The author builds several examples, expanding on them as the book progresses. Each time a large block of code is presented. If you can't figure out what is going on just by inspecting the code, each section is followed by a detailed 'how it works' explanation.
The book was thorough enough to give me a good understanding of just about everything I needed to know to begin developing a rather complex client-side application. I had to go to a more in-depth reference to learn how to assign an event handler with parameters to a control that was being generated by code, but that was about all that I did not find covered in this book.
I would definitely recommend this book to Javascript beginners, particularly those who are willing to read steadily through it.

Rating:
Summary: old code but covered very well by this book
Review: I have been using javascript on and off and for a while I
hav stayed away from it due to poor material and bad
presentation on some very bad books.
This book is exception for all those who have lost confidence
and compliments well with my later .net collection of books.
well done.

Rating:
Summary: Best if kept on your Desk at all times
Review: You won't be ashamed to have this "Beginning" book on display on your desk. It's easy to use and very descriptive. Plenty of examples and they work! After buying this book I thought I would upgrade after a few weeks but I was wrong... I still use this manual.

Rating:
Summary: This book is a 9.5 on a 10 scale...!
Review: aha!,
After reading Beginning ASP 3.0 by Chriss Ullman and his gurus last summer . I wanted to know more about javascript. So i got this book. its grrreaat...! in true Wrox fashion the chapters are well laid out and very easy to grasp. the chapter on DHTML impressed me most. It presents you with drop-down Menus and hyper-links and other slick things that javascript can do that VisualBasicScript cannot do.. Javascript definitely is a must for any serious web developer and up 'n'coming webmaster. Dreamweaver MX has many of these javascript functionality in its click-drag-n-drop interface however it pays to know how the code also works.
One more Wrox phenomenon has dropped in my mail-box. Gooo- Wrox..!