I first got ‘Javascript: The Missing Manuals’ which was a good starter book but all I really learned was how to apply jquery, not how to write it. I have really learned jquery alot over the past 2 months as I’ve started writing some things from scratch using the jquery API website as a reference: http://api.jquery.com/. I also grabbed a copy of ‘Jquery Cookbook’ off amazon, which is actually more of an intermediate book which is challenging at times but it’s great if you’re looking to start writing code from scratch rather than just applying jquery (adding an image gallery, tabs, tooltips) to your page which a lot of the beginner books seem to focus on.
