Relevant programming books and resources

[skiadas]

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• [x] Haris
• [ ] John
• [x] Bill
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These are some books I would recommend on Javascript, listing them roughly in order of "difficulty":

1. "Javascript, the good parts", D. Crockford http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do
2. "Javascript Patterns", S. Stefanov http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596806767.do Also might be worth, seems more recent but I havent looked at it yet:
3. "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns", A. Osmani http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025832.do
4. "Maintainable Javascript", N. Zakos http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025245.do
5. "Testable Javascript", M.E. Trostler http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024699.do Reading that last one right now

Books on Node.js, our server backend:

6. "Learning Node", S. Powers http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024606.do
7. "Node Up and Running", http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920015956.do

Important webpages of things we (will/might) use:

• jquery (http://jquery.com/): Makes a lot of client-side stuff easier
• jqueryUI (http://jqueryui.com/): A lot of ready-to-use interface elements
• can.js (http://canjs.us/): Model-View-Controller functionality. That's the one I've used in the past, there are other alternatives
• requirejs (http://requirejs.org/): Module Loader and Packager. Allows for structuring the document into separate classes/modules, takes care of dependencies and provides a lot of namespacing protection.
• Jade (http://jade-lang.com/): The templating language used to create the html
• Sass (http://sass-lang.com/): Used to create the CSS

That's all I can think of for now.

[skiadas]

I forgot to add: "Version Control with Git, 2nd edition" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022862.do