John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course.

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Furthermore, the author makes a clear attempt to provide more thorough coverage of the core JavaScript language than other books aimed at designers and this is a big plus point for the book.

JavaScript came onto the scene in 1995 as the browser language in Netscape’s Navigator browser and was primarily used to implement simple user interface elements such as menus.

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.

JavaScript is a dynamic language that excels at being the glue of the web, and that shouldn’t change. Business logic needs to work, and it needs to work correctly.