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One of the interviewers asked to impress him with the JavaScript and CSS skills. He provided a link to two websites and asked to write a JavaScript application (page or pages) that takes content from one or both of these websites and demonstrates my command of jQuery and CSS. It doesn’t have to be useful to end-users, but it should be interesting to programmers.
What interesting things should I write? What would impress you in the candidate?
P.S.
The sites have real-estate information.
So, what would be the best way to read information from a given URL and extract some of it using jQuery?

That interview question is so subjective. What impresses one person might be basic to another. Why not ask a more meaningful question that demonstrates whether or not the candidate actually knows the language.
With all that said and if you really want to work for this company, I would study up on the basics of both js and jquery and really learn how to optimize basic functions. If you had to impress me then you should try to optimize a block of code as best you can without making the code unreadable. There's nothing better than clean, fast and readable code.

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Can I avoid using Jquery? [closed]

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This is actually not a technical question ! Im learning Javascript (I started a few months ago with AngularJs for a big school project) and am now focusing on plain Js, and Im still quite a noob but Im starting to get the 'abstract logic' of it and im having fun.
I 've often heard that jQuery was a bit 'hacky' and not always a clean way to achieve things, but it does work efficiently. My question is: can I keep it to 'good ol' Js forever or will I inevitably have some day to use jQuery for tricky things? Can I have your advises on that? Thanks !
(sorry if Im not in the good section?)
I think this question might be better suited for r/webdev.
But yes you can avoid using jQuery altogether. jQuery is great for DOM manipulation. It has a stigma for turning large projects with a lot of jQuery into 'spaghetti code' but it is still widely used. That being said, whatever you can do in jQuery can be done in different ways using JS, CSS or HTML.

Where to go after taking beginner HTML, CSS, and JavaScript courses [closed]

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I've been in the process of making a career change towards front-end development. I've taken several beginning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript courses but am feeling stuck.
I'm not sure where to take all these skills and apply them. I've thought of creating an app for practice, but don't understand the back-end of things. Does anyone have any recommendations for someone who has taken front end dev courses and is looking to advance to the next level (where ever that may be)?
Hopefully this makes sense and others have been or are in a similar circumstance. Thanks!
Amit
I would say a great way to learn new stuff is to watch video courses. I've learned a lot from sites like http://www.lynda.com/ and http://tutsplus.com/ since there are courses for everyone - beginners to experts.
I would say, try to get the basics about a CMS like Wordpress, and start developing themes to try out your front-end skills.
If you are interested in some PHP development, I'd recommend to read about it and try out some PHP frameworks that will get you started.

Are there drawbacks to using easily-written jQuery until i understand vanilla Javascript? [closed]

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As I am learning vanilla JavaScript right now, I don't always know what to ask when searching through JS documentation (mostly on Mozilla MDN). So, I use what I know in jQuery until I get there.
So, what performance or other drawbacks should I be aware of when using jQ to substitute for my lack of full JS understanding while I learn?
These days, clients run fast enough that you don't really need to worry about any performance differences between vanilla JavaScript and jQuery. Thus, it could be said that this is a sort of "premature optimization", so I give you the same answer I always give: Use what you know/what's easier to maintain until you can demonstrate a critical performance bottleneck via a profiler; only then should you figure out how to improve the performance, possibly including switching to vanilla JS.
You should learn to understand how to retrieve elements from the DOM and how javascript relates to HTML. Basically you are altering html-elements and attributes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom.asp
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model

If my main skill is javascript than which other skills would complement it best [closed]

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So if i excel at javascript than learning what other libraries, languages, framework, business related things would help me improve as a developer and get hired.
I know just knowing js isn't enough and that developer must know some basic stuff like
jquery, css3, html5, etc.
But what else.
I rarely see a job in which it says you need to know javascript there are always a lot of something else.
Well this is not the perfect place to ask this question but to help you I would like to suggest you some options.
If you are aiming to become a full-time front-end developer then along with the Javascript you must have excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery.
Also you must start practicing at least two of the following JavaScript frameworks:
Angular JS,
Node JS,
Grunt,
Dojo,
MooTools.
It would be good to have knowledge of SASS & COMPASS as well.
A good knowledge of Photoshop or Illustrator is also required.
Rest you can research yourself and choose as per your choice.
Best of luck!!

What Site is a Good Example of JQuery [closed]

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I have already checked stackoverflow. Their Jquery/Javascript code is cryptic. The variables are all one letter in length. So can you guys give a good website that uses JQuery well and follows good/best practices?
I have already read many books on the subject. I would like to jquery implemented on a large scale.
At the jQuery's homepage jQuery.com you can find several tutorials.
Further on there are books written about jQuery. The one I can recommend is the jQuery in Action. It's a pleasant read.
Here's a showcase of sites which use jQuery:
http://usejquery.com
Here are more topics about the subject:
Where can I find a tutorial to get started learning jQuery?
Where can I learn jQuery? Is it worth it?
I'd recommend the site LearningJQuery.
They've got advanced, intermediate and beginner examples.
I'd suggest that any site who is using the minified jQuery library is doing themselves and their visitors a favour!
How about JQuery itself?

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