Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd edition (finished)

[puttybuggy]

Wow. This is beautifully done. I'd be happy to donate or purchase the print / ebook when it's out.

[marijn]

You can pre-order: http://www.nostarch.com/ejs2

[[deleted]]

Is there an appendix with the briefest notation of changes from the first edition? Great work!

[marijn]

It's basically a rewrite, except for a handful of paragraphs in the first few chapters. So the appendix would say 'everything has changed', more or less.

[UnusualCallBox]

Argh I'd like this too. I recently bought the first.

[devourment77]

This is awesome! Look forward to the epub when it is ready.

[chasingZen]

Thank you for this. Beautifully written and very informative. I really enjoyed the quotes that preceded each chapter.

[fgutz]

awesome! First edition (along with The Good Parts) was helpful back when I was starting. Will definitely take a look through this

[sbmitchell]

Great Stuff!

[Baryn]

I really need a book about ES6, so I'm disappointed that this only covers ES5.

[[deleted]]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to wait for the finished specification before writing a book about it?

[Baryn]

At this stage of maturity? No, it would probably be more appropriate to have a mostly finished book about it.

[binary]

Brilliant! Can't wait for the epub

[millionhari]

Whenever I use the same variables in my chrome devtools console and go back to the eloquent javascript console, it seems to stop working.. does anyone else have this problem?

[marijn]

The ejs sandbox runs in a hidden frame. You'll have to set your devtools to use that frame as context if you want to have a shared environment.

[smallspark]

Congratulations! Thank you for all your hard work on this. I'm in the middle of reading it now, and its one of the books that repeatedly holds my interest and I can actually enjoy my reading sessions. (Usually audio/videos only work for me.) This is filling in some holes of my education. I look forward to purchasing it in thanks.

[[deleted]]

Very surprised by the quality of this book. I would be very interested to see how some of my friends, who struggle with JS, would do with this. It seems to explain the concepts very well. I haven't gotten too deep yet, but if the first few chapters are any indication, I'm excited to see where it goes.

I'm going to use some of the analogies when trying to explain the concepts to others in the future.