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I am experienced in the technical support like Linux, oracle, sunos etc and but if i say scripting i know little bit of bash. Now i promoted to manage technical engineers including some JavaScript developers, so i want to learn JavaScripting so that i can understand engineers. Hope you understand. Can you please advise me how can i start JavaScripting and point me to some simple docs and examples.

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I'm learning javascript myself now. I think http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp is a good reference when you wanna have quick look on syntax. I always prefer to read some good books because It gives me the based knowledge about the language. Maybe I am wrong about this but i think everybody has different approach in learning.

I would recommend you to read this book:

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition

Which you can find the code resources here: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/Code-Resources.id-380581.html

The code is free for download. The book is friendly to beginner.

Then you might wanna move on to:

Object-Oriented JavaScript

There are also good screencasts out there such as Douglas Crockford's lectures.

I hope this help. Enjoy learning :)

Answer 2

Look at A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript, it includes tips and examples and Javascript Tutorials for Beginner's

Answer 3

I think Mozilla Developer Network is a great source and particularly JavaScript Guide would be very helpful for someone to start.

Personaly, I started with W3Schools and I liked the small, "digestable", easy-to-understand examples but I have changed my mind since I landed to this page: www.w3fools.com

Answer 4

JavaScript: The Good Parts is a good, and thin, book. The videos by the same author are also very good. The MDC documentation is excellent (but watch out for features added post-1.5 which are usually not supported by Internet Explorer).

Answer 5

I find this the best free guide to javascript: http://eloquentjavascript.net/

Answer 6

Start learning form here :

http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_intro.asp

But i think also better to start with the jquery a good library for the javascript After you done with javascript : http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page