JavaScript & JQuery, by Jon Duckett, is perhaps the most elegant, visually engaging book you can learn JavaScript from. This is part of Lifehacker’s book review series.

Now, you can learn ‘em both — in just an hour each. Those are just two of the courses in this extensive collection of instruction we call the Complete Javascript and jQuery Programming bundle.

The jQuery Anti-Pattern for Performance is also good, especially if you want to learn what NOT to do. A lot of jQuery tutorials are very guilty of doing many things on this list.