Welcome to this tech book club! I'd love for you to join me reading this title. I've chosen this book after it was suggested by Chris, who thought it would be a good topic for me as I move into more front-end development.

Eloquent JavaScript A Modern Introduction to Programming, by Marijn Haverbeke

 About the book

Eloquent JavaScript dives deep into the JavaScript language to show you how to write beautiful, effective code.
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You start by learning the basic structure of the JavaScript language as well as control structures, functions, and data structures to help you write basic programs. Then you’ll learn about error handling and bug fixing, modularity, and asynchronous programming before moving on to web browsers and how JavaScript is used to program them.

• Published by no starch press where you can buy the book in paperback.
• Or read for free online at eloquentjavascript.net.

About the Author

Marijn Haverbeke is a programming language enthusiast and polyglot. He's worked on a wide range of software systems, from databases to compilers to editors. He runs a small business around his open source projects.

Reading Information

The book has 21 chapters and approx 481 pages.
My copy is the online 3rd edition.
The book is divided into 3 parts (language, browser, node) and an introduction

All source code is available online in an interactive sandbox, where you can edit the code, run it, and see its output instantly.

The code examples and sandbox are at eloquentjavascript.net/code/.

Some translations are available at eloquentjavascript.net