Mailing the story:

Not only is this a good book to have if you want to learn JavaScript from the ground up, but it's a good book to have if you want to learn the basic principles of programming. Chapter 2, Programming with JavaScript alone is worth the price of admission. So many books seem to throw the reader directly into the JavaScript (or some other programming language), without describing how to do the basic steps of programming in that language. Chapter 2 is truly written for the beginner and takes the reader by the hand, showing them how to build a simple program from the ground up.