Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition: A Modern Introduction to Programming

If you don't have years of programming experience, and want to get started in JavaScript, do not buy this book. The practice problems in chapter 2 will have you pulling your hair out. And if you look at the solutions, you will want to slap the author with the book. It moves too fast and assumes too much.This book seems to assume you've already been programming in JavaScript for, I dunno, 3-5 years, and need a refresher.THIS IS NOT A BEGINNING PROGRAMMING BOOK!

I once took a class in JavaScript and we had a teacher that went through the basics very nice and slowly, making everything easy to understand. That teacher got sick and so for a brief period of time he was replaced by a substitute. This substitute teacher made the class very difficult. He used difficult examples and overloaded the lectures with information that made my head feel like it was going to explode! I grew to feel very frustrated at that teacher. But i also learned a lot.This book is like that 2nd teacher. It's difficult and packed with information. Some of the examples feel unnecessarily difficult. As if trying to learn classes and constructors isn't difficult enough, he goes on to use an example of class syntax to make a matrix. And each chapter is like this where there's a couple examples that are almost unnecessarily difficult to follow. It can be frustrating.But, it's also a treasure trove of information. And anything I don't understand, I can just look up simpler explanations. I think that's powerful because it points to things I can look up and learn more deeply about.I don't recommend this book to beginners. I recommend having a mild understanding of JavaScript fundamentals before going into this book. If you have learned JavaScript basics but want to go deeper then I recommend this book. I think this book would benefit anyone who isn't a total expert or a total beginner.

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.

I am a JavaScript developer with a lot of real-world experience, but I lacked the ability to fundamentally rationalize and explain the "WHY" of decisions I was making. This was, of course, problematic when I was interviewing for a new job.I turned to books to get a more well-rounded understanding of the language I had been using for so long, and Eloquent JavaScript was one of the most helpful for me. Most everything you need is covered inside with code examples written in ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) syntax which is ideal for programmers working with modern web application frameworks.This book is available completely free from the publisher (Google search "Eloquent JavaScript"), but the physical copy is delightfully high quality. It is certainly worth your money. Maybe give the online version a look and, if you find the content good/helpful/whatever, consider purchasing the paperback.I would recommend this book for anyone who works with JavaScript. For a beginner, I would pair it with a book on programming fundamentals and get started coding literally anything.

I really wanted to like this book as I wanted to get up and running with JavaScript as soon as possible. It's let me down. I think it comes down to "horses for courses". This horse (me) does not appreciate this course (Eloquent JavaScript).I'm an old-school programmer. Picked up Kernighan & and Ritchie's "C Programming Language" when it first came out in the 1980s. Loved it! Succinct but incredibly precise. I read it over two days and really KNEW the language!"Eloquent JavaScript" is neither succinct nor precise. It spends pages on a topic without helping you understand what the inner workings of the topic are. This simply does not work for me, though it might for others. The reason you program is because natural languages like English are not precise in a way that allows a computer can actually implement the sentences - at least not yet. A good book on programming should bridge the gap between English and the stuff a computer can implement. Eloquent JavaScript NEVER took me to the other side of that bridge.The problem is partly mine. Perhaps the author expects the reader to "bridge" the gaps on his/her own. But I've programmed in at least a half dozen languages. Sure I can guess what the details are... The description of "closures" on pages 48-49 is vague and left me struggling to understand this important topic.As an alternative to Eloquent JavaScript, I highly recommend the "You Don't Know JS" series by Kyle Simpson!

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Without a doubt, I think this is one of the best book for learning JavaScript. This book is especially good if this will be the first programming language that you learn. The features of JavaScript are thoroughly taught and the basic concepts of modern computer programming is also taught. The author has a writing style that is very engaging, even entertaining at times, which is help in a subject as dry as learning a new programming language. I highly recommend it.

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.

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Please everyone on my team read this as it makes all our lives easier when we deal with your code

Very detailed and thorough, I was getting frustrated with the online course I was taking, the explanations in this book helped me understand what I was doing. Finally finding this resource was like taking a breath of fresh air.