Literature

About the course literature.

Online resources are available and detailed out in each part/lesson of the course and published on the course website.

Book

The author Dr. Axel Rauschmayer has a set of JavaScript online books that are most valuable for anyone learning JavaScript.

The first book to start reading should be this that provides an quicker insight into JavaScript for a programmer that is already skilled in another programming language.

• JavaScript for impatient programmers (ES1–ES2021)

Documentation

During the course we will use The Mozilla Developers Network as a guide and reference. You can see an overview of the content at "Web technology for developers".

We will use the documentation from Node.js API as a valuable resource when developing in the Node environment.

We will use the documentation from Express API when working with that web framework.

More reading

The following books from Axel are also relevant to this course, these books brings up the features of each release of JavaScript.

• Exploring ES2018 and ES2019
• Exploring ES2016 and ES2017
• Exploring ES6

Eloquent JavaScript

The free online book "Eloquent JavaScript" provides in insight into programming in general and JavaScript in particular. The book is a bit lighter and perhaps easier to read than Axels books, if you are new to programming with JavaScript.

Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition by Marijn Haverbake, ISBN-13 978-1593279509.

JavaScript for Web Developers

Another larger and more complete book useful as reference.

A larger and more complete book, all in one, "JavaScript for Web Developers". 1000+ pages and most useful as a reference.

Fourth edition, ISBN: 978-1-119-36644-7 / 1119366445