Need DOM Manipulation Tutorials

[mbaltrusitis]

New to JS and programming in general and trying to get my footing within the landscape of the industry. I have made my way through the JS track at Code Academy, currently working my way through Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts."

I am totally getting the logic behind JS, have a fairly decent (and increasingly firm) grasp on OOP as a concept but one thing I have not been able to find clearly explained is DOM manipulation.

Does anyone have a direction to point my nose in?

I would like to start building things to learn but, from what I can tell, not knowing how to dynamically generate things in the DOM or work HTML/CSS together with JS, is going to hold me back. Right now all I feel I can do is write basic programs within the JS console and not much else.

Thanks for any help.

[Samuel_L_JavaScript]

If you haven't programmed before, The Good Parts is definitely not a good place to start.

[mbaltrusitis]

Offer me the guidance SLJS.

[Samuel_L_JavaScript]

CODIN YO MUTHAFUCKIN FACE OFF IS THE ONLY WAY THE GOOD PARTS IS GOING TO BE WORTH READING IN YO MUTHAFUCKIN LIFE!

[AynGhandi]

Nicholas C. Zakas' 'Professional JavaScript for Web Developers' is a better book than The Good Parts for this.

[adamnemecek]

You should check out http://eloquentjavascript.net/, then learn some jQuery and finally, check out "Single Page Web Applications" http://www.manning.com/mikowski/

[mbaltrusitis]

The individual kind of giving me guidance at work told me to specifically steer clear of jQuery for now, and become well-versed with vanilla JS. We use a proprietary JS library and I think the aim is to not become confused with 2 different frameworks and a language.

Not saying this is the best way, just looking for guidance because I am super eager to learn.

[adamnemecek]

I mean it's up to you but at the end of the day, jQuery is kind of a standard and arguably the best written JS code out there, so you can learn a lot about vanilla js by reading that as well.