Learning JavaScript for absolute beginner in programming

[agiletortoise]

I think this is pretty solid advice:

Tutorial on Drafts Scripting?

Here are my suggestions. While they have a loose order, you can absolutely approach them in parallel with relatively no issue. But you do need to have at least a few of the basics of core JavaScript to understand what you come across in the others. Read Eloquent JavaScript. This will give you a grounding in JavaScript. Try to learn what is provided via the browser and the document object model (DOM), and what is the core language. You can utilise the latter in Drafts. Read the Drafts scrip…

Particularly, I think the Eloquent Javascript book mentioned is a great start because it really handles the basics of programming in general, just using Javascript as the language.