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[DanWilliamson]

Hey,

I have currently decided to start learning Javascript in the hopes of in a few months to get the basic grasp of AJAX but so far it's been difficult trying to find any good tutorials on starting Javascript and they all same basically the same things; but following different rules so tonight I have asked myself Is it worth learning it or not. Now I know that it would be nice to have a Client Side Scripting Language on my Skillset but I just don't know where to begin with anything to do with this subject.

So is it really worht it; and if yes do you have any links to some in-depth articles and tutorials introducing the basic syntax and structure of Javascript; also any links to a few books will certainly come in handy for me as long as they're in UK GPB as I can never convert them

Many thanks
Dan

[l3lueMage]

If your going to learn AJAX with it then yes its worth it IMO...AJAX is quite a neat tool to use online, too bad not many websites implement it.

[DanWilliamson]

I know I definately want to learn AJAX but it's a necessity to have good knowledge of Javascript basc & advanced syntax is it not? Because it means Anchrysyncious Javascript And XML

So you have any decet links to JS tutorials or books? If so thanks

Dan

[Ruben K]

Sitepoint's DHTML Utopia
http://sitepoint.com/books/

[DanWilliamson]

I know about SP large Javascript selection and was thinking about buying theres after their great responses but I mean ones outside SP. I'm going to look around Borders tonight and have a look.

I think I will learn Javascript as I want to learn AJAX

Thanks everyone
Dan

[rc69]

http://www.pixel2lif...showtopic=17298
The link above is a nice discussion about whether to learn JS or PHP. You might find it informative, i think it covers the subject rather well.

As for AJAX, here's another discussion about it (only much smaller).
http://www.pixel2lif...showtopic=18873

And if you want to know my opinion about how to learn, just look for my posts in the first link

edit: Just rememberd. Quirksmode.org. Awesome site for learning JS, it goes overly in-depth in several areas including cross-browser compatability. Navigation is a bit wierd though, i just google the site to find what i want.

Edited by rc69, 22 March 2006 - 07:29 PM.

[Donna]

Great tuts and reading on Ajax

http://directklick.f...s.com/ajax.html
http://www.maxkiesle...g/comments/451/
http://mikesmullin.com/freelance/?p=9


lots more out there and the web is saturated in javascript tutorials for learning.


General Basics:
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/JavaSc...General_Basics/