I've enjoyed JavaScript Weekly for a while now. http://javascriptweekly.com/

Eloquent JavaScript for new developers

Crockford's JavaScript The Good Parts for developers coming from another language.

Functional JavaScript by Fogus is excellent and can be read after either.

(Free) JavaScript Books:

http://codecondo.com/free-javascript-books/

I found these immensely useful a) PPK on JavaScript b)JavaScript the good parts c) JavaScript: the definitive guide.

It looks there is already another CSP implementation in Javascript by James Long (@longster)
http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous-Beast-with-CSP-...
https://github.com/jlongster/js-csp

He did a talk on it at ReactConf here:
http://conf.reactjs.com/schedule.html#communicating-with-cha...

The difference seems to be that James' was strongly influenced by the Clojure CSP implementation in core.async. It's not clear what this implementation was influenced by.

I also found JavaScript Garden (posted on HN a few weeks ago) incredibly useful in un-confusing my understanding of JS.

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/

Here's a few recent buys:

  - Javascript: The Good Parts (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/)
  - High Performance Javascript (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802806/)

It's always a good time to buy a few classics:

  - Information Architecture for the WWW (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527341/)
  - Javascript: The definitive guide (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101992/)
  - Beautiful Code (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046/)

I'd start much simpler than any of the full-on backend languages mentioned like Ruby, Python, Java, etc.

Get the very basics down - it will be fast and easy and you'll feel good you are making progress. HTML and CSS - don't get bogged down in HTML5 or any latest cutting edge thing or another. Just the core for now.

Once you've got this down, which really is pretty simple stuff, I'd go into jQuery and Javascript. Both are fairly easy to approach though deceptively so maybe, with a ton of upside; and with the push that NodeJS is making, that may be all the programming you need even for the backend.

I don't have any good rec's on learning HTML but google it, there's a ton out there.

CSS I'd do the same, though I also really like CSS - The Missing Manual by McFarland.

For Javascript you'll be hearing a lot of Javascript - The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, a must read if you are serious.

And jQuery, honestly is so fun/powerful/addictive, if you get a big of Javascript down you will be off and running. There are countless tutorial websites on jQuery and more books coming everyday. Bookwise it's hard to rec right now as the new version of jQuery just dropped today and everything is a bit out of date as it stands.

Bottom line, don't get caught up in trying to learn too much to begin with. Also, good UI Coders are hard to come by and you can always find a Rails/Python/back-end guy to help out until you get that stuff down too.

Just looking through my read category on my kindle and realised I haven't read any life changing books in 2014.

Currently reading Javascript and Jquery by Jon Duckett and find his visual style and clear, concise writing perfectly fits how I learn. Could not recommend it enough to any other programming learners.

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi is a very simple, straightforward book on personal finance. He advocates having your money automatically distributed into fixed costs, investments and spending money rather than getting bogged down in budgets.

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson is the first in a trilogy that chronicles America's entrance into World War II in North Africa, all the way to the downfall of the Third Reich. His style is both minutely researched and totally readable. He nails the violence and horror at the front, as well as the incredible scale and logistics of the whole enterprise. I'm now on the second in the trilogy, The Day of Battle.

Last year Thinking Fast and Slow and Antifragile were my highlights - they compliment each other well and both changed my outlook on how the world is organised and how I perceive it.

Thanks to all the other posters, I've added lots of the suggested books to my kindle.