As a publisher of computer books my favorites are oriented more for the beginner, which I believe is still the largest untapped market for jQuery books.
CSS, DHTML & Ajax. Jason Teague. Peachpit's Visual Quick Start Guide. This guy knows how to write and makes a beautiful presentation of examples. Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. Freeman and Freeman This is OReilly's amazing Head First series written by husband and wife and man it's so much fun to read. Uses a unique visual presentation with self tests and great humor. They have one coming out on Javascript I preordered. You have never seen a book like this, I promise you. Dreamweaver 8 The Missing Manual. The Pogue series from OReilly is, well, to me the best tutorials on the market. I could write an essay on why, but this book has been a gold mine to learn Dream which I believe is essential if you are doing web sites. Learning jQuery. Packt. Chaffer and Swedberg (our own Karl). What can I say. I'd be toast without this book. Sure there is a lot I would like to see changed (like get rid of the quote from the band Devo and put something in meaningful) but they got it out super fast and it works. It assumes a lot of knowledge of css and js, and goes too fast but like I said, its real and its hear. It's a must have. Oh - its best feature is the author is right here in this list and he is really helpful and generous. jQuery Reference Guide. Packit. Another must have. But I expect something a lot better soon. Suffers from too few and too advanced examples. And $40 for 250 pages does not feel right to me but I understand there are not going to be millions sold so the publisher needs to jack up the cost. DOM Scripting. Jeremy Keith. Friends of Ed. Mixed feelings. I liked the first 5 chapters (77 pages), but the entire rest of the book is wrapped around one example and I think that is the wrong way to teach. Note that I have not listed a Javascript tutorial book. That's cause I haven't found one I like. The OReilly books is too fast paced and really not a beginners book. Anyway that is my 10 rubbles. Mitch www.mitchwaite.com Publisher Mitch Waite Group
