Another from the head-first series, this book presents in a more graphical-than-normal explanation of JQuery, from novice-to-intermediate, filled with a lot of examples. Many people would tend to enjoy reading books this way, and I can appreciate that for some this is the best way to learn a new language, but going on from previous titles such as Head First Java, I still haven't enjoyed the structure as much. If you haven't done any programming before, then perhaps this book would suite you well, but for those of us who are picking this up to brush up on web-based languages, coming from other languages, this book can be a bit frustrating.

I appreciate the neatness of the author compacting in a zip file all the example code/files, but for me, the cookbook series would be more useful. Having said that, one could probably get both books and start off with some easy examples to grasp the basics of how JQuery works, before looking at specific examples by reference (with the cookbook series). All in all, I'd give it about 3 thumbs up, but appreciate the relevance to the more novice dudes out there.