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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.'JavaScript: The Definitive Guide' by David Flanagan is a great book.http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...
W3Schools is one of the best free resources out there. http://www.w3schools.com/Here are some books that I have used that have been helpful
PHP and MYSQL for Dynamic Websites http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010SEMW8/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...
Javascript: The Definitive Guide http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...
⬐ Restart-Button>"W3Schools" Tab Opened" >>"Fuck" >>>"Started Coffee" >>>>"Tomorrow Rescheduled"Thank you very much!
It sure would, I just don't think there's any reason to mess with low level stuff like XMLHttpRequest objects. For javascript itself, this book is always good : http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan... If you haven't seen O'Reilly's safari yet, that's quite a nice program if you are still in school learning a variety of things.
"I want to code the site using PHP and a bit of Java-script, but my skills with these are not exactly up to the job yet."You must understand that you need to learn 2 separate things and you need to learn them well.
For javascript on the client you need nothing other than the browser you already have and the Rhino book:
http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...
Learn what's in this book! Go through all the exercises and tutorials. Build something. You can augment the book with tutorials you find on-line (ex. Webmonkey). Then you can View Source on any web page and understand what they did (and what they did wrong).
On the server you will have to find any common LAMP stack and load in onto your machine. The execises and tutorials for php, MySQL, and apache should be enough, although you can find more almost anywhere. Build something! Now that you already know javascript, you can include that in the pages you build as required.
Only after you have a solid understanding of the basics of these 2 technologies should you consider a framework. This can be tricky. If you adopt a framework too soon, you may run into a problem for which you don't understand enough about what's going on under the hood because you never learned it. If you adopt a framework too late, you'll be hand coding everything and will never get done.
Most importantly: you can only learn any of this by doing. Time consuming doing. Books and resources any necessary but hardly sufficient.
Do not fall into the trap of only learning at the surface and expecting to find someone else to do the coding. This does not work for a small software start-up. You must dig deep and learn well.
Thanks for finally posting. I hope you came to the right place. Get to work and keep us posted.
I would start with the Rhino bookhttp://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...
⬐ morbidkkI had rhino book but things got better when I readhttp://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Wro...
⬐ dgabrielI could not agree more.The web has lots of practical examples and API documentation, but it's fragmented information. This book gives you a thorough, cohesive understanding of the language.