I am a simple, humble older dude trying to play tech catchup with (it seems like) half the bloody world. I have a question but I think its almost philosophy rather than javascript so maybe one of you brainiacs can help me a bit? I struggled through several books and the w3c on line tutorials on html and css. That worked out fine, and it all made a lot of sense. Now however I am turning my attention to javascript (to make my sites more attractive) and where ever I look I am meeting this... well problem of the objective viewpoint of the tutors. This has happened both on line and with web design books. Its like this: the education sources that are available seem to only want to explain how to do set things with little snippits of code without explaining the structural (grammatical ??) rules that underpin javascript. I would like to discuss this so I can visualize javascript better, in other words I want to try to understand the semantical rules of javascript rather than learning as a cut and paste monkey. If anyone is interested in replying to this I can give concrete examples of what I am referring to.