JavaScript is hard to write for as pointed out in our JavaScript tutorials . So finding a good introductory text has been a long search; fortunately Chuck Easttom has really done the trick with his Learn JavaScript. This book starts users out with the basic syntax and real world exercises - a strong mixture of theory and graded practice that makes learning effective(and users have all the tools - a PC, a5.x browser, and simple editor are all that is required).

The organizing motif is a web site project - which, if users don't have one to work on, they can simulate with Personal Web Server or Apache as localhost. The exercises move through JavaScripts powerful string, date and numeric processing functions onto the DOM-Document Object Model so vital to Web programming and then to JavaScripts very powerful, yet easily utilized objects. Users can even try their hand at game programming, menus, and dynamic hyperlinks. But all the time they are getting a great grounding in HTML/JavaScript syntax and coding methods. Best to buy this direct from the Web at Amazon or Barnes and Noble because the publisher, Wordware, is only to be found in specialty computer bookstores in our area.