JavaScript Tutorial [Five Days of Extreme Efficiency]

The brilliance of Javascript is that you can do an awful lot with very little programming. You don't need a high-powered computer - all you need for the software is a word processor and a browser, no access to a WEB server necessary - you can do everything on your own computer.

Although it's convenient, Javascript is a full-blown programming language, so by the time you've learned more complex Javascript, you'll have learned some fundamentals of computer programming as well.