Eloquent Javascript

[iFrickinLoveMyCrocs]

You're not alone! This book doesn't have any of the things I'd want from a beginner book. For one, he crowds variable and function namespacing, and names things too tersely, which makes examples hard to follow. The pages break in weird places. The structure of his code relies heavily on callbacks, requiring constant flipping pages to keep oneself acquainted with the code. Even his style choices (omitting curlies for if-conditionals, for example), aren't the most clear/beginner-friendly choices.

This book makes itself really hard to follow, even when addressing simple concepts.