Eloquent JavaScript - online guide to javascript for beginners

This is very clever and deserves a lot of points. It doesn't look very interesting on the landing page but once you get into it, it's well written and there are some clever strategies (including a small JavaScript console at the bottom you can use to test bits of code while learning).

I haven't got the time now, but I'm going to work my way right through this one day - what I looked through seemed very solid.

The only downside? The font chosen for the code examples looks pretty gross on OS X, but since you can download the book as a ZIP file, it can be changed in the stylesheet! (I'm hoping..)

The author is a very competent Lisper; author of Postmodern:

http://common-lisp.net/project/postmodern/

:-)

Edit: Holly crap, he wrote a few other things as well:

http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/

Original source here: http://eloquentjavascript.net/book.txt

Neat stuff :)

This has always been my favourite JavaScript resource. It has a good breadth of topics, the writing is to-the-point, and it has an interactive JavaScript area with a history-backed prompt and a code area with syntax highlighting and automatic indentation. The examples and exercises are both hands-on, e.g. the object-oriented programming chapter has you build a little terrarium simulation. Highly recommended.

you guys should also read http://www.hunlock.com/blogs Very thorough articles on JavaScript

I wish this book had existed when I began programing JavaScript.

I also like the firebug-style console at the bottom of each chapter.

I've been reading this site all day since I found it on here. Awesome.