Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition: A Modern Introduction to Programming Paperback – December 4, 2018

I had been looking for additional reference with regards to JavaScript for quite some time, but never felt appealed to a specific one until picking up a copy of this. It is very difficult to write a technical book in a fashion that is appropriate for all skill levels and Haverbeke manages to pull this off. The chapters are organized in a very logical fashion, his writing style is succinct and uses just the right kinds of analogies to help you understand concepts very thoroughly. The exercises are just the right degree of challenge and I'm glad to enrich my further learning of this language by reading his book.

I have so many books and many books on JavaScript. This so far seems to be my favourite of the bunch. I have the paperback book (Which the binding came unglued almost immediately - only con on this book I have against it) and I have the eBook. I use the eBook the most sitting on my desktop next to my laptop and external keyboard/mouse and find I can learn from it easily. I've already learned so much about ES6+ (ECMAScript) not starting with only Vanilla and moving forward but intertwining the newer changes to the language with the old and showing along the way (whether on purpose or not) how to refactor the code so it is more concise using the new shortcuts implement into JavaScript over the last few years. And it builds on topics, gives test questions to rattle your mind a bit and you can tell it was written by someone with Industry inside experience. And one interesting thing I learned from it which the books pounds into you is you need to manage the fine line between shorter/less/cleaner code and efficiency. Sometimes if performance is in question slopppy and longer written out code might suit your needs better. It's a 5 star book. I've been waiting many months for this books to come out and it was worth the wait.

Have been trying for over a week to understand how to work with the Javascript event loop. Browsed multiple Web blogs, read the "authoritative" Javascript book from that O' "publisher" that no longer deserves the name, hacked away on my own for days without success.Just got this book, went straight to the "Handling Events" chapter, and 3 minutes later, my confusion was resolved. Not only that, but the chapter opened with a quick and easy overview of how events have been handled in the pre-Javascript era. I found this enlightening as it explained without fluff or pedantry why the Javascript event loop works the way it does. Haven't dived deep into the rest of the book yet, but a brief browse indicates that this book is quality from TOC to Index.Major kudos to the publisher for bright archival paper, black ink, correctly sized illustrations, excellent typography and correct font sizes. (Sadly, such aspects of basic book design can no longer be taken for granted.)

I have experience with C and C++ and wanted to get up to speed with JavaScript. I spent time with several books, but Eloquent JavaScript was the most helpful. The organization is excellent and the project-based chapters were especially helpful in getting a feel for JavaScript.

It is a good book with plenty of information, except that some of the literature was above my learning level!

Now I can get started on my homework. Great price for a book in great condition.

Buena resolución de la impresión y el acabado es impecable. Me llegó en excelentes condiciones. 100% recomendado!

I came for the JavaScript but stayed for the dry humor. A really decent resource for anyone just wanting to learn more about programming as a general topic but through the lense of JS. Very economical writing that rides a nice balance between beginner concepts and more complex ideas. I'm not advanced enough to pick apart any errors they made in their writing but it seems to be held in decently high regard by the computing community. The author also made a decent companion site with resources/answers for the practice lessons they give at the end of each chapter. They even included a little in-browser code editor to run the code examples you produce if you go through their practice lessons. Kind of nice if you just want to just play with his ideas a bit and not bother with firing up a whole IDE session on your computer.