The Complete Idiot's Guide to JavaScript - Second Edition

This book covers everything from the extreme basics to quite complicated topics such as cookies and arrays. It is excellent if you want to learn JavaScript and have little or no previous programming experience, and also serves as a good reference guide. Its only downside is that it only covers JavaScript 1.1, and so misses out on the commands introduced with the newer version 1.2. This means that if you're looking for the most up to date book, you should look elsewhere. If, however, you want the most easy to follow guide around, I would definitely start here.

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