I really want to find a book with good complex real-life examples.
Ask YC: Advice good books to learn jQuery
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Re: Ask YC: Advice good books to learn jQuery
#2Manning's "jQuery in Action" is quite good and has some decent examples. You can pick up a PDF copy from their site for very little.
Re: Ask YC: Advice good books to learn jQuery
#3A good intro is "Learning jQuery" by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg although the jQuery web site offers some very good introductory material. I have found the "jQuery reference guide" (same authors) helpful to have around though.
Re: Ask YC: Advice good books to learn jQuery
#4I've always self taught myself stuff through example code, blogs, and misc web resources. It's typically more up-to-date than books as far as web languages are concerned... However, I'm sure there's one or two worth grabbing.
Re: Ask YC: Advice good books to learn jQuery
#5I have all three "JQuery Reference", "Learning JQuery" and "JQuery in Action"…
Of the three, "JQuery Reference" is the best — granted, you can access similar like reference material online, but I found it was nice to have in book form, with more examples, so you could leaf through when not gazing at a monitor…
"Learning JQuery" is decent, but dated, and many of the examples given use deprecated features. Also, some of the examples are quite contrived, and accomplish presentation tasks that I would never ever implement as JS. But my philosophy on JS is that it should enhance, and not be a replacement, so YMMV.
"JQuery in Action" — wish I would have foregone purchase of, not that it's bad, just that it seems to be packed with lots of verbiage and ends up being a poor man's ORA style "JQuery in a Nutshell".
Re: Ask YC: Advice good books to learn jQuery
#6http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
And it's free.