Robin Smidsrød said
No messing with the DOM in this book! Here you learn the core syntax of Javascript in an easy to read way, while staying away from the pitfalls of the language.
I read it in a matter of two days, and I really feel more confident about my Javascript with this knowledge under my belt.
Combine this with one of the books on jQuery and you could be a rockstar in no time at all!
Consider one (or several) of these books:
Learning jQuery 1.3
jQuery in Action
jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Chris van Hasselt said
David Flanagan's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" has long been an essential resource. This book is the missing chapter from the definitive guide, a short best practices guide that really can help you take your Javascript programming to another level.
C. Dumont said
This book is excellent if you are already programming with any other language and want to get in to JS. In explains the basics with very good examples!
Bradford C. Smith said
I would recommend you think of this book as the JavaScript equivalent of Effective Java (2nd Edition) (Java Series) or Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series). You're still going to need to get JavaScript: The Definitive Guide to learn how to use JavaScript in your web pages, but this book will deepen your understanding of JavaScript and show you how to write cleaner code.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
M. Tomich said
If you are looking for real-world examples of how to put JavaScript to work, this is not your book. Some of the information is useful, but to little to justify the price of the book. After this read, I did realize one thing for sure: JavaScript is a pretty lame language and needs to go away.
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