Morrison Michael. Head First JavaScript

O’Reilly Media, 2008. — 652 p.Head First JavaScript is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else's web site, and writing your own interactive web pages.
This book is the easiest book to learn JavaScript. If you want to make interactive websites this book for you. The wacky drawings seem childish, but that is WHY the book is so great. It makes you fill in parts of the code with a pencil and you check it on the next page and has a crossword puzzle you can do for fun at the end of each chapter.
With Head First JavaScript, you learn:
The basics of programming, from variables to types to looping
How the web browser runs your code, and how you can talk to the browser with your code
Why you'll never have to worry about casting, overloading, or polymorphism when you're writing JavaScript code
How to use the Document Object Model to change your web pages without making your users click buttons
If you've ever read a Head First book, you know what to expect -- a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. This book takes you through your first program into more complex programming concepts -- like working directly with the web browser's object model and writing code that works on all modern browsers.