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JavaScript

Posted by David Grant
David Grant
2,978 Points

Easiest way to learn JavaScript?

Any tips for mini-projects to do outside of treehouse?

Would like to add that I am a designer with good knowledge in css/html and Jquery, but 'hand coding' Javascript is challenge for me.

Shivam Bhalla
Shivam Bhalla
Courses Plus Student 5,035 Points

Learn the foundatations of Javascript via treehouse/youtube or any other source. Stuff like if/else, boolean, variables, loops, arrays etc.

Than watch the best jquery tutorial on the web: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/learn-jquery-in-30-days/

4 Answers

Eric Murphy
Eric Murphy
407 Points
Eric Murphy
Eric Murphy
407 Points

Here is some more useful sites to help guide you. Also be sure you have either Chrome Dev Tools or FireBug for Firefox. These tools help greatly for any development.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference

http://dochub.io/#javascript/

http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/javascript-basics

Use this awesome tool to check your code http://jshint.com/

As far has books go O'Riley media has some some awesome books, and relatively inexpensive

Hope this helps you out.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The dochub.io JavaScript content is the same content from Mozilla, just searchable.

Dochub is pretty neat, then I found devdocs.io which has the same content from MDN.

Jonas K.
Jonas K.
10,766 Points
Jonas K.
Jonas K.
10,766 Points

I really like this book: http://eloquentjavascript.net

You can read it for free on the site.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Check out the exercises on pairuptocode.com

You also might want to check out Learn Street's JavaScript Course

David Grant
David Grant
2,978 Points
David Grant
David Grant
2,978 Points

Thank you very much for your answers people! I seem to learn best from a mix of tasks and reading books/following a project.

Cheers :)