Tutorials

• Introduction to JavaScript
  A twelve-part tutorial by Stefan Koch (probably the most-often referenced JavaScript resource on the Web)

• The UserActive JavaScript Laboratory
  Modules on event handlers, scripting, objects, properties, methods, and functions, all presented in a "virtual programming laboratory"!

• JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer
  Seven chapters covering if-statements, loops, windows, events, and more (by Robert Young)

• JavaScript How-to
  Many useful JavaScript examples by Real Gagnon

• JavaScript for Beginners
  Data validation, image maps, arrays, and loops (by Emily A. Vander Veer)

• JavaScript Objects and Event Handlers
  A table of JavaScript event handlers organized by object

Netscape Communications Corporation

• JavaScript 1.1 Authoring Guide
  http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/
  http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/jshtm.zip
  This is the official documentation for JavaScript 1.1, as implemented in Navigator 3.0

• JavaScript 1.2 Documentation
  http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/javascript.html
  Documentation for JavaScript 1.2 (introduced in Navigator 4.0), including What's New in JavaScript 1.2, a JavaScript Reference manual, and a new JavaScript Guide. Also of interest is a document entitled Writing Server-side JavaScript Applications.

• JavaScript Language Specification
  ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/review/jsspec.ps.gz
  A preliminary draft (113 pages) of the official JavaScript 1.1 language specification

• JavaScript Resources
  http://developer.netscape.com/one/javascript/resources.html
  http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/jsframe.html
  Links to tutorials, examples, online publications, FAQs, and more

Microsoft Corporation

• Microsoft JScript
  http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/default.htm?/scripting/jscript/default.htm
  JScript is Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript; visit their new Scripting Site and see what's new in JScript 3.0

• Object Model for Scripting
  http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/sdk/docs/scriptom/omscript.htm
  http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/prog/sdk/docs/scriptom/other/omscript.zip
  An outline of the object model employed by VBScript and JScript in Internet Explorer

• JScript Tutorial
  http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/default.htm?/scripting/jscript/techinfo/jsdocs.htm
  A brief tutorial covering JSscript basics (variables, data types, operators, control structures, functions, objects, and keywords) and advanced features (recursion and scope)

• JScript Examples
  http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/default.htm?/scripting/jscript/samples/jssamp.htm
  A handful of JScript examples programs

Frequently Asked Questions

• JavaScript FAQ
  http://www.irt.org/script/faq.htm
  An exhaustive JavaScript FAQ maintained by Martin Webb

• JavaScript Mini-FAQ
  http://www.dannyg.com/javascript/jsminifaq.html
  A JavaScript FAQ by Danny Goodman, the author of The JavaScript Bible

• JavaScript Meta-FAQ
  http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~thompson/programming/javascript/meta-FAQ.html
  A JavaScript FAQ posted regularly to the newsgroup comp.lang.javascript maintained by Christopher Thompson

Books and periodicals

• The JavaScript Bible
  http://www.dannyg.com/recentwriting.html#JavaScript Bible
  By Danny Goodman

• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript3/noframes.html
  By David Flanagan

• The Official Netscape JavaScript 1.2 Book
  http://www.netscapepress.com/support/javascript1.2/   (local version)
  The Nonprogrammers Guide to Interactive Web Pages: examples and applications

• JavaScript Sourcebook
  http://gmccomb.com/javascript/
  Complements the new book, JavaScript Sourcebook, written by Gordon McComb, and published by Wiley Computer Publishing

• JavaWorld: IDG's magazine for the Java community
  http://www.javaworld.com/
  An online magazine of articles, news, opinions, and resources for Java and JavaScript

Miscellaneous

• Standard ECMA-262
  http://www.ecma.ch/stand/ecma-262.htm
  Both JavaScript 1.2 and JScript 3.0 are ECMA-compliant (ECMA is a European standards body)

• Gamelan JavaScript
  http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.javascript.html
  Many, many JavaScript programming examples

• JavaScript Pro
  http://www.inquiry.com/techtips/js_pro/
  Questions & Answers, books, a JavaScript mailing list, and more

• JavaScript Tip of the Week
  http://webreference.com/javascript/
  Cool!

• Danny Goodman's JavaScript Pages
  http://www.dannyg.com/javascript/
  Books, articles, and a handy Quick Reference sheet

• JavaScript Resource Center
  http://jrc.livesoftware.com/
  JavaScript programming examples from the book Java Unleashed, plus other examples and resources

• Object-Oriented Language: JavaScript
  http://www.objenv.com/cetus/oo_javascript.html
  Extensive set of JavaScript links

• comp.lang.javascript
  news:comp.lang.javascript
  The comp.lang.javascript newsgroup, including a meta-FAQ (c.l.j is archived by dejanews and altavista)