[aklug] Re: Javascript book with problems

I learned with the w3schools documentations and other tutorials I found
as necessary. For the few cross-platform problems that I couldn't find
solutions to, I had a copy of the "javascript bible" which was
wonderful, but only used it as a reference so I don't know how it's
learning style was.

As someone who "learned assembly to make my c code better" I think you'd
learn a lot by going the raw javascript route before learning any of the
jQuery/prototype/mootools libraries. Sure they make things SO much
easier, but at the cost of having to load a non-tiny library before
being able to do your string operations "the pretty, easy way".

--Jason

On 08/11/2011 08:56 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Christopher Howard<christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [110811 06:49]:
>> I'm trying to learn javascript, and i'm looking for a good book.
>> However, i really want a book that has a lot of good practice
>> problems. The local bookstore has a few javascript books which
>> look very thorough, but they don't have any practice problems,
>> which is really important to my learning style. Would anyone care
>> to make a recommendation that would be worth buying off amazon?
> Christopher:
>
> I have JavaScript Application Cookbook. Right up your alley
> except
> ** It is published in 1999 **
>
> That is all I know of. You might consider one of the javascript
> platforms like jQuery and work on a book from that vantage point.
> The platform-specific books tend to be more task-oriented, I
> think.
>
> As much as I like books, I have found that using the Firefox
> webdeveloper plugin along with the w3 schools documentation, which
> is DOM-oriented, to be very helpful.
>
> And I think that coffeescript is worth looking into: From what I
> have read in the latest LJ, it is a 'preprocessor' that 'compiles'
> into browser-neutral javascript. Could be the latest and greatest.
> Or not. Vim already has a plugin for it, and I except IDEs to
> follow, if not provided already.
>

---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Thu Aug 11 09:38:56 2011