[gkarthik]

I'm currently developing a social music discovery platform, Tune Patrol and I work on the front end(HTML,JS,CSS) predominantly. From my experience, I feel there isn't any specific book or instruction manual to follow. I've always felt that learning code is a simple three step process, no matter which the language.

1. Understand the logic of basic commands that you will be using, for example, in java script, event listeners is a pretty important concept.

2. After reading the core concept briefly, have a run through the syntax. Remember, you can always refer the syntax of a language, do not mug it up. The syntax will come to you after some practice.

3. Implement it practically. Make a personal website or simply start coding a few plug ins. This is where the actual learning happens.

I've always followed this paradigm and its worked out okay for me so long.

Although for a few initial concepts, http://www.w3schools.com is pretty good.

Also try reading Oreily books on Javascript, HTML5 and CSS. All their books are of a good standard.