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Books 2008 #1 Pro JavaScript Techniques

Pro JavaScript Techniques (Pro) Reading this book I finally understand why I don't really immediately grasp JQuery code. Resig's doesn't use verbs for his function names. Instead of something like getElementsByClass(), he uses something like class(). I like verbs in my function names.

That aside, this is an excellent book for the serious JavaScript programmer. Resig does a great job of covering the breadth of modern JavaScript techniques and if you've got a reasonably solid JS foundation you can't help but come away from this book with patterns, techniques and approaches that you can apply to your day-to-day code.

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