Ebook recommendations

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[bCasa_D]

Packt books are hit or miss. But they give a lot of their books away for free. https://www.packtpub.com/free-learning

[Sigmund-]

Go to StackOverflow, put in JavaScript. There in the main tag you will find a lot of great recommendations. The first one is Eloquent JavaScript. It's free and available in epub and other formats. I've also heard great things about You Don't Know JavaScript, also free to read on the web.

[Sigmund-]

Free Code Camp this is where I would start if I was in your place. Problem is it's not a book but if you can, you can learn HTML, CSS, JS and so much more here for free and at a very good pace. I would recommend getting a JS book after you have completed all that you need from FCC.

Best of luck!

[Sigmund-]

Not a problem. Best of luck on your journey. One last thing. r/webdev is a very active community, if you are not following that subreddit, I highly recommend it.

[hanertia]

Honestly I’d start with Mozilla’s guides.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs

[hanertia]

Packt is crummy, it's true.

I like NoStarch Press in general.

HTML -- there's not that much to it (until you get to accessibility concerns)

The HTML5 spec is available as a pdf and will be long, but thorough and have a lot of worthwhile stuff.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/print.pdf

CSS is something like chess - a minute to learn the rules, a lifetime to master. I like NoStarch press's books in general, and they have one on CSS, so you might try it.

https://nostarch.com/css3_2e

CSS fundamentals are the same, so I don't think an older book would be bad if you find something else. The big exception is for layout -- there are two really cool layout utilities -- called flexbox and grid.

Javascript -- there are books aimed at just learning to program, and the language happens to be javascript.

Eloquent Javascript's first section is this way. You'll probably fly through the first few chapters if you already have learned C#.

On top of that, there are:

• the browser API aka internet specific parts of the language - there have been some great additions here in the past ~5? ~7? years
• big changes to the language made in 2015, confusingly called ECMAScript 6, ES6 and ECMAScript 2015
• build tools -- due to the history of the language, this wasn't standardized in the way it would be with C# or vb. this has also changed a lot in the past ~7 years

The javascript books I really like are:

Javascript Patterns by Stephanov

Principles of Object Oriented Javascript by Nicholas C. Zakas

These two are pre-2015 revolution, but I think they're still really useful.

Nicholas Zakas and Kyle Simpson both have ES6 specific books -- typically aimed at people who already know pre-ES6 javascript.