JavaScript

Designing with JavaScript by Nick Heinle

O'Reilly   $29.95

Most of the JavaScript books I've encountered are written by engineers and seem to assume some previous programming or scripting knowledge on the part of the reader. I went crazy looking for a good JavaScript book that would explain it in terms someone with no programming experience could easily understand. This is absolutely the best I've found. Nick Heinle is the whiz kid responsible for JavaScript Tip of the Week and the JavaScript info on webcoder.com. He assumes you know nothing and quickly teaches you a lot.

JavaScript for the World Wide Web, a Visual Quickstart Guide by Ted Gesing and Jeremy Schneider

Peachpit Press   $18

I like to supplement Nick's book with this one. See my note about the Visual Quickstart Guides in the section on HTML 3.0, above.

JavaScript Bible by Danny Goodman

IDG Books   $49.99

When programmers recommended a JavaScript book to me, it was generally this one. Good for debugging section. Good index.

HTML Artistry by Ardith Ibanez & Natalie Zee

New Riders   $40.00

This book starts with tables anf frames and goes through JavaScript into an excellent section on dHTML. Ardith Ibanez is the Creative Director of Akimbo Design the studio that created the Superfly Fashions dHTML demo for Macromedia's dHTML Zone. She is also the author of HTML Web Magic, described above under HTML.

DHTML for the World Wide Web, a Visual Quickstart Guide by Jason Cranford Teague

Peachpit Press   $18

An excellent introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and dHTML See my note about the Visual Quickstart Guides in the section on HTML, above.

New Masters of Flash by Yugo Nakamura and others

Friends of Ed   $59.99

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Flash 4 Magic by David J. Emberton & J. Scott Hamlin

New Riders Publishing   $45.00

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Cascading Style Sheets Designing for the Web by Hakon Wium Lie & Bert Bos

Addison-Wesley Pub Co   $39.95

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Effective Web Animation by J. Scott Hamlin

Addison-Wesley Pub Co   $44.95

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Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair

Walter Foster Pub   $24.95

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