Parts one and two in DevArticles' new series on an introduction to Javascript have been posted:

In The Power of Javascript: An Introduction: This first article in a series covering Javascript from the basics to more advanced applications will explain what it is, what it is not, and give you a small taste of what it can do.

In The Power of Javascript: Basic Concepts: you will be introduced to the very basic concepts of the Javascript language. We discuss comments, keywords, identifiers, statements and the semicolon, case sensitivity and white spaces. Note that our examples at this time are limited and we will focus more on the concepts, but after a few articles we are going to discuss many examples on each concept.

In this day and age, if you don't know much about Javascript, you're not going to get very far at all in the web development world. It's almost a necessity to get the job done - plus you get to mess with cool things like AJAX...