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"A concise and balanced mix of principles and pragmatics. I loved the tutorial-style game-like program development. This book rekindled my earliest joys of programming. Plus, JavaScript!"—Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript

JavaScript is the language of the Web, and it's at the heart of every modern website from the lowliest personal blog to the mighty Google Apps. Though it's simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is not a toy—it's a flexible and complex language, capable of much more than the showy tricks most programmers use it for.

Eloquent JavaScript goes beyond the cut-and-paste scripts of the recipe books and teaches you to write code that's elegant and effective. You'll start with the basics of programming, and learn to use variables, control structures, functions, and data structures. Then you'll dive into the real JavaScript artistry: higher-order functions, closures, and object-oriented programming.

Along the way you'll learn to:

Master basic programming techniques and best practices
Harness the power of functional and object-oriented programming
Use regular expressions to quickly parse and manipulate strings
Gracefully deal with errors and browser incompatibilities
Handle browser events and alter the DOM structure

Most importantly, Eloquent JavaScript will teach you to express yourself in code with precision and beauty. After all, great programming is an art, not a science—so why settle for a killer app when you can create a masterpiece?

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Marijn Haverbeke is a programming language enthusiast and polyglot. He's worked his way from trivial BASIC games on the Commodore, through a C++ phase, to the present where he mostly hacks on database systems and web APIs in dynamic languages. He created and maintains several popular open source projects.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 1st edition (February 6, 2011)
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781593272821
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593272821
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.77 x 9 inches

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A challenging and oddly entertaining read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2014

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The subtitle, "A Modern Introduction to Programming" may be a bit misleading for some. While it is indeed a "Modern Introduction," I would not quite call this an introduction meant for someone with no prior programming knowledge. I took classes a few years ago and have since forgotten most of what I knew. JavaScript kept coming up as an essential skill, so I bought a few books to assist in the re-learning process, and have begun with this.

One of my troubles with learning, or trying to learn, good practices in programming has been finding good sources. A simple Google search brought me to a Tutsplus page where this book was listed, and I think it was a very fine recommendation. While it can be rather challenging at times, the pace is comfortable and the examples have a humorous bent to them, unlike many of the dry texts that fill this market.

Examples in this book are not walked through step-by-step like others of it's kind, and the author assumes a certain amount of work on your part to learn how to actually read the code. Oftentimes with beginner books, I find myself skipping over much of the content because it is dumbed down and far too basic. For example, after a quick overview of basic programming concepts, the author jumps into functional and object oriented programming rather quickly, which I found quite exciting.

The one drawback I found with this was that exercises were not included in the print version to work through on your own, so it was less of an interactive experience and more of a straightforward informational one. The good news is, the book is also available as a free HTML version online which includes additional exercises and interactive versions of the code examples included in the book.

This is one of the first of it's kind that I've seen that is both challenging and fun to read. I've already recommended it to others, and think that it can be a very good (re)introduction, especially for learning a bit more advanced techniques than you will generally find in introductory books.

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I had picked this up due to the high ratings and good words on how it explained the finer details of the JavaScript language. As a traditional server-side developer that has been doing more client-side work the past year or so, I had hoped that this book would be able to fill in any details I may have missed in my self study. While the book itself is very well written, without any glaring errors, and contains a good amount of solid information, I personally felt that it was not worth the read for me.

I will attribute this to partially being my fault, not noticing the subtitle of "A Modern Introduction to Programming". The book is quite true to this title, walking the reader through the most basic of concepts up through both general Functional Programming and Object Oriented Programming concepts. It does this all via JavaScript at least, so the reader gets constantly exposed to the language and its syntax. However, even as someone who has worked in JavaScript for only a little over a year, there wasn't anything new or mind-blowing in the content for me. The last few chapters hold the real meat of the content, and even then those chapters leave a lot to be desired. If the entire book was focused around those last few chapters and seriously fleshed out, it would be more appropriate for an experienced developer getting into the language.

All in all, a well written book with good information, however, it is clearly designed for a beginner to programming in general or perhaps a student. To any professional or even experienced developer switching languages, there are far better books out there on the market.

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Rapid Pace, but Solid Substance

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Parts of this book were not easy for me to understand. The examples move quickly and make frequent leaps before explanations are offered. This was kind of neat, but also kind of tough at times.

The author chooses his own nomenclature to describe the elements of JavaScript, such as using the word name instead of identifier, which is used in the ECMAScript Specification. The accumulation of which created a general sense in a lack of specificity, something I personally take comfort in when addressing a technical subject matter. In the case of this reader, a reasonably technical person, the examples in this book moved too quickly in skill level.

I believe there is great value in this book and will return to it after completing JavaScript 24 Hour Trainer by Jeremy McPeak, a book that builds up much more methodically than does Eloquent JavaScript, perhaps a good mid-level JavaScript book, but not a beginner's book in my opinion. The Mozilla MDN site recommends this book which tells me the patterns presented within are key knowledge in the JavaScript community.

I suggest trying the free website out for yourself. If you get through section on Functions without getting hung up like I did, then this book is probably for you. In many cases, the examples in website are superior to the book. 3.5 stars.

Update: I keep coming back to this book for pattern reference and concise explanations where I need to wrap my brain around what something is, such XMLHttpRequest(). I'm glad I have this book.

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Neil Nand

Amazing book, should be required for any JS developer.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 11, 2014

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This book really does a great job of covering programming concepts and techniques that every programmer should know and understand but in relation to JavaScript, it's certainly a must read for a JavaScript developer.

I have to admit though there's some stuff in here which I haven't fully understood on my first read (only read it once so far) but I think that's because I learnt so much reading it that there's only so much I can take in. Even if I don't end up understanding those parts on the next read through I understand enough of it already to know there importance and that I'll need to look them up else where, I find not understanding explanations a common problem for me where others don't though so I wouldn't say it's a reflection on the book, I still think it's brilliant.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 11, 2013

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This is the book you should read if:
* you already have a basic grounding in JavaScript (the free tutorials at Code Academy are great)
* you want to learn how to become a *programmer* you are going to be working with JavaScript.

There are lots of places to learn how to hack together code to make things happen in the browser, or places where you can learn the basic vocabulary of programming. Here, you will learn the very grammar of the best practices of programming, including how to make your code object-orientated. Even how to start writing your own libraries, or, at least, not to be freaked out at the idea of writing your own libraries.

It is well written and concise. The trade-off here is that it is rich. Very rich. I've re-read it twice and I'm still finding things I need to commit to memory - not a lot of space is spent revising/reinforcing. The author warns you about this in the introduction though!

Only after a thorough grounding in the better aspects of the language does it move on to tell you about techniques you can use in the browser - about 2/3 of the way through. I didn't have a problem with that but I can understand how it might aggravate some readers.

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Timothy R. Hyde

eloquent by name Eloquent by nature

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 16, 2013

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There are lots of books about Javascript but few that actually teach people to write beautiful code. As the title of the book suggests, this certainly has a good go at this.

A good book for beginners to learn programming, but equally inspirational to more seasoned programmers who would like to rethink some of their bad habits. For the later this is quite an easy read.

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jose alves

A modern introduction for the "beginner"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2013

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This is a good book for anyone which is starting to develop. It is also a good introduction to the modern guidelines that are intrinsic to JavaScript, even thought I feel that some concepts of the language are not really easy for anyone that is starting to develop.

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Asbjørn Andersen

Great book both for beginners and experienced programmers!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 11, 2013

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Written in a practical voice with a deep love of programming. Great stuff both for beginners and experienced programmers! Lots of good angles with something new to learn for everyone. Hat off to Marjin :-)

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