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Bryan Castleman
9,520 PointsHTML DOM Events
Should I be trying to build a vocabulary of events in my brain such as mouse events like onclick ? Is there only a handful of these events ?
What do seasoned programmers do in regards to Javascript ? Do they continually go to a reference for the language to look up things that could be useful ?
I think I saw another tutorial somewhere on the topic of JQuery that emphasized scouring the JQuery API Documentation to find useful pieces of the language.
2 Answers
Patrick Koch
40,498 PointsHi Bryan
I didn't learn all the syntax, way too much! My experience was, I learned how the language worked and then look up when I got problems. With the time a learned part of the syntax, cause of using, but still there is so much out there. Also, if I was looking up for something, I keep my eyes open and looked out for new things.
g Patrick
Simon Abrams
8,807 PointsI think Patrick nailed it - don't worry too much about cramming the specific syntax; just work on recognizing the patterns of how JavaScript works, and get good at finding references so that you can look things up when you need them. You'll eventually find that you know the syntax just from doing it over and over again.
I didn't know about MDN before taking these Treehouse courses - that's a fantastic reference resource.