[JavaScript]
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Resources

As I indicated at the beginning of this guide, this is only a beginning. This guide will be enough to help you get started in writing JavaScripts, but if you want to pursue scripting seriously, you will soon want to move on to kind of advanced guides that are probably digested more easily in book form. Here are two recommendations:

  • Danny Goodman: JavaScript Handbook (the most readable guide I know of) (IDG Books)
  • Wooldridge, Morgan, Reynolds, and Honeycutt: Using JavaScript (an exhaustive guide that offers some coverage of Java, ActiveX, JScript, VBScript, and DHTML as well) (Que Books)

Both of the above should be available through Amazon Books

Online Resources

There are many other online guides to JavaScript; before you plunge into one, you should consider how up-to-date it is, how technical it is, etc. Probably the best places to start are the Netscape and Microsoft sites. Here's where to go:

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