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this site has been a great help to me. I am working as a UI designer, and i am very interested in learning Javascript, but i am not able to find a right way to start from. I don't have a programming background.
I need a book for Javascript, which is totally for a Noobs, starting from the fundamentals. I tried reading Douglas Crockford's Javascript the good parts, but i wasn't able to understand much.
Please suggest me some books
Try out this new site:
http://www.codecademy.com
It really will help you get a hang of javascript. It's an interactive way for learning javascript.
If you're looking for a book, I'd recommend O'Reilly's Head First JavaScript. You can get it from their site or cheaper from Amazon.
I started recently using eloquent javascript and it is indeed a good book. Along with that Mozilla Documentation helped. But the best way to understand the language is to use it and see it in action. Ask a friend of yours to introduce you to firebug and how firebug is used to alongside with Javascript debugging. That will help you to get a grasp of how javascript is used to real world. Once you know that you will find that Javascript as a language is really simple, it's applications (and concepts such as AJAX) and it's libraries (jquery) are the ones that are making it really really powerful
Make sure you read Pro JavaScript Techniques. It is concise with a wealth of information.
Then there's the JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. Also make sure you get Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja when it gets published.
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So I won't say I'm a complete beginner, as I know the very basics and have a CS degree(that I'm very rusty at) but I have gone back through and refreshed myself with the CS50 Harvard course.
The last project is to build something, and I've gotten more into learning JS for unit testing at work and while we mostly use rails...I'm interested in learning the new emergent stuff.
I've heard the 70/30 rule applies to full stack devs, and I can't imagine if ever be good with front end stuff so I'd imagine that would be my "30". However with ES6 out and all these new conventions and frameworks I'm a bit lost where I should start?
There is a highly rated JS and Jquery book on Amazon I've been eyeing, but it's quite old. And I wonder about backend frameworks too.
My ideal learning "stack" would be node/react and mongo (with express for node) but it seems like a bad idea to learn them all at once. If I'm interested in backend should I just stick with learning node/express first?
Do I need to worry about ES6 as a beginner? I guess I'm just stuck where to start and in general which path I should take. I've done some dabbling in express but it seems like getting at least decent with JS and Jquery makes sense first?
Thanks
Sorry I think StackOverflow is not the right place to ask about your question and this will be soon removed or closed and tagged as "too vague", but I'm here to help and share what I know, so I'll answer anyway:
So you:
Know the very basics of JS
Have a CS degree
Are interested in back-end development
Well, you're years ahead of other people starting with JS. You know something and you want to specialize in a given technology. That's great.
You can start with Node.js since you want to do back-end development, and your CS background could help you with that. Using Node.js will give you the environment you need and you can make your experiments with JavaScript there. Node.js is just a collection of JavaScript APIs for server-side programming, so learning it will also make you a better JS developer since you'll learn both together.
Do you need to worry about ES6? Well, don't think about ES6 as something different than JS. If you learn it by up-to-date JS books you'll learn it as well.
I would avoid thinking about your "stack" right now. Learn Node.js and JS by the way and you'll have a strong foundation to learn anything else you want.
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As someone who will be working extensively with JavaScript and JQuery, I hear the community is strong so I figured I would ask what a beginner should been keen in understanding when developing mobile applications. Like any other language, I wish someone would have walked in the first day of class when programming with C and said to me, "if you don't learn everything about malloc() and free() today, you will fail!" Or when I was writing with Java and heard that private and static are essential for every function and variable too late. See what I mean about learning the most important so I don't get frustrated with the details later.
My current attempt at figuring this question out is reading a book, but like most books, they don't expect you to ask what is the high-level re-occurring concepts. I have used CSS and HTML and have not used scripts or Jquery as much when developing websites.
Read "JavaScript the Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419857713&sr=8-1&keywords=javascript+the+good+parts
This will give you what you need for JavaScript. I don't know "the best" source for jQuery, but start here: http://learn.jquery.com/
If your new to Javascript Syntax I would highly encourage you to check out the Code Academy's Javascript Track here.
If your new to programming in General I'd also encourage you to learn about functional programming which is very important in Javascript (Very useful especially when you start working with asyncrhonous code). A great resource for this is Eloquent Javascript. The book is posted 100% free on the authors website here. I'd encourage you to read chapters 1-5.
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I'm very sorry if that question has been asked already, couldn't find anything closely related though.
By now I've pretty much learned HTML/HTML5, CSS/3, learned using JQuery (not saying there's nowhere to improve, obviously there is). I really want to start learning front-end dev (client MVC, etc). I've started learning backbone.js, but it turns out i'm having difficulties learning it. Am I missing something? I've read "JS: Good Parts" and Javascript Garden is basically my go-to source yet I still get confused.
I'd appreciate any recommendations as to what I should learn/practice first, thanks :)
My favorite answer for that is always - start your own side-project.
Pickup any simple existing application, ToDo list, issue tracker, blog platform, what ever and spend energy to make it done. Host sources on github, search for similar applications to inspire.
You would not believe how many actual questions you would have, by just trying the things out. If you already have good skills with HTML/CSS and JS you'll be able to build something really valuable and learn a lot.
Backbone.js is good, but could be really difficult to start with. Do, some learning curve - implement same simple app in jQuery, then Backbone, then Angular.js. It will give you great client MVC overview.
Two things
Don't quit.
Stackoverflow.
You can read all you want and it will definitely help, but in the end, you'll just have to start, work through it and finish something. Finishing is very important, so I would recommend starting simple, for example, build your own todo with an example on the side and work from there.
Different people have different learning styles, so not all answers you will get will work for you (except GijsJanB's "Don't quit"). Personally, once I am through a tutorial or other documentation, I like to study a real-world system of substantial size. Two that I've looked at and might match your interests are:
Brackets: a Javascript/HTML/CSS editor written entirely in Javascript. Written and maintained by Adobe, open source and available on Github via this link.
Travis-web: the front-end of the Travis-CI continuous integration framework, based on the Ember framework. Written largely in CoffeeScript, not JavaScript proper.
I'd suggest AngularJS (http://angularjs.org/). Why? Because it has a pretty good tutorial section, good documentation AND it's backed by a large company (Google).
But unfortunately, the learning is still up to you ;-)
A free online resource is w3schools, it teaches you back-end too(PhP and mySQL).I really suggest you to learn Angular2, this is a great js framework that most front-end developers use. Always practice,code at least 2 hours a day, make a lot of websites for your portofolio, learn how to make slideshows and animated text, you can even learn how to make a working login page, and a working contact form(a lot of cients want theese stuff). Learn photoshop and illustrator because clients want great design these days.One thing you have to remember is that you never stop learning,if you ever think that you finished learning it emans that you are at the beginning.Good luck and never forget the semicolons :)
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I realize that title may require explanation.
The language I first learned was C, and it shows in all my programs... even those not written in C. For example, when I first learned F# I wrote my F# programs like C programs. It wasn't until someone explained the pipe operator and mapping with anonymous functions that I started to understand the F#-ese, how to write F# like a F# programmer and not a C programmer.
Now I've written a little javascript, mostly basic stuff using jquery, but I was hoping there was a good resource where I could learn to write javascript programs like a javascript programmer.
Douglas Crockford's - Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language would be a good place to start.
I learned a lot of useful information in regards to code convention through his video tutorials, which I suggest viewing. I posted the link to the first video out of the four in the series.
Also, as suggested by Ben, (which is a book I would also highly recommend) is Douglas Crockford's book JavaScript: The Good Parts
If you want to find good explanations on jQuery, check out the creator, lead developer and fellow StackOverflower John Resig's website/personal blog.
The book Pro Javascript Design Patterns is a great resource:
http://jsdesignpatterns.com/
I really like this article:
A re-introduction to JavaScript
http://eloquentjavascript.net/
It may be a little wordy, but it gives you some excellent examples that will stick with ya.
The more you work with JavaScript/jQuery - especially working with other people's code - the more of the style you will pick up. I recommend reading though the documentation on the jQuery website and maybe picking up a book on Javascript. Then just keep working with it. Also, make sure you keep looking at other people's code - read through the source code of some of the jQuery plugins you are using, and seek out examples online for 'best practices'.
First off, start using JSLint on all your code, for at least a week (http://www.jslint.com). I'm not going to say you should use it constantly, forever and ever, and it's perfect, because it's not. But, it will help you learn a lot about JavaScript, if you take the time to read what it says, and understand why. Even if you disagree, which you may, understand the reasoning behind each message. Then you can decide if it's a tool you'd like to continue using.
The other first step is to pick up a copy of JavaScript: The Good Parts. This is by far the best book on JavaScript. It's short, very easy to read, and really will help you learn better JavaScript. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748
Other than that, there are a lot of good blogs to follow. You can find these via google, but I'd look at Perfection Kills and John Resig's blog, in particular. I think mine is pretty good too, you can find it via my profile if you're interested :)
I would also recommend "Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja" by John Resig. It will be out in July this year and would definitely be an excellent resource.
Else, Douglas Crockford "JavaScript:The good parts" is excellent.
Javascript has functional programming roots.That makes a big difference compared to the OO world.
Here are some links that helped me jump the fence:
A simple explanation:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
A deeper one:
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Functional_Javascript
Read/debug the code of this library:
http://osteele.com/archives/2007/07/functional-javascript
You can read/debug the source code of PURE, a JS templating engine we wrote.The 2nd version was totally rewritten in functional JS.
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I want to learn how to write the Javascript/CSS/HTML side of my applications but I want to skip the CSS kludges, bad Javascript, and non-semanitic HTML of the past and jump directly to HTML 5, CSS 3, clean Javascript libraries. I've been reading Mark Pilgrim's Dive In HTML 5 which I think is awesome and now I'd like the equivilent books (or blog posts) for Javascript and CSS.
Any suggestions?
Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts is a classic.
These are my recommendations exactly in the same order. The first 3 books are very light reads & are sufficient enough to get started with client side programming. However, learning JQuery will make your Javascript development much easier. It is similar to learning to use regular expressions (but JQuery offers more than regex).
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics
Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition)
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
jQuery in Action
Learn jQuery :o)
W3Schools is an excellent site for a quick and simple start.
Do a search for object oriented javascript. Douglas Crockford is a good author on the subject, but there are others.
If you can stomach the sometimes abrasive tone, try the comp.lang.javascript Usenet group. The archive is full of every JavaScript question or discussion you could imagine, and there are some seriously knowledgeable people on there.
I have to say learn JQuery and use Wordpress
Wordpress is way more than just a blog tool now and being able to code great XHTML / JQuery and be a wizard in CSS should cover everything.
Good luck :)