[geeks] javascript tutorial sought?

[der Mouse]

I'm looking for a javascript tutorial.  But not just any JS tutorial
will do; I've done some searching and found a lot of them, but if any
of them outline what I need, I'm missing them.

I want to build a card-game client.  This means I need to handle images
(mostly the cards, but not entirely) and network connections.  There's
nothing here that I couldn't do perfectly well in C for X, and indeed
I'll have a version in C for X, but I want a version that runs on a
Windows machine, and it seems to me that the least-pain way to do that
is to write in JavaScript (almost certainly a lot less pain than trying
to teach myself to write Windows apps, especially since I don't, have a
Windows machine and this isn't important enough to me to make me get
one for the purpose - I can test in Firefox).

And none of the tutorials I've found describes how to handle network
connections or moving images around the way I want to (basically, my
mental model matches the physical model of a bunch of cards on a
tabletop fairly closely).

Suggestions?  I'm interested in webpages, books, text files, even PDFs,
whatever, as long as I can contrive to read it...

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