If you want to learn JavaScript, our first recommendation is Murach's JavaScript and jQuery. It teaches you enough about JavaScript to get the most from jQuery, which is the JavaScript library that most professionals use. It also shows you how to use jQuery UI for widgets and interactions and how to use jQuery Mobile to build mobile web sites.Of course, there's a lot more to JavaScript than using it with jQuery. So if you want to learn more about JavaScript, Murach's JavaScript and DOM Scripting is the book for you. Its first 12 chapters show you how to use all aspects of the JavaScript language, including how to use all of the methods for numbers, strings and dates; how create and use your own functions and objects; how to use regular expressions an...