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The only way to master JS is to read one or two books (YDKJS being one of them) and then actually program projects of increasing ambition while asking questions
by sotojuan 10y ago
The only way to master JS is to read one or two books (YDKJS being one of them) and then actually program projects of increasing ambition while asking questions and reading docs.
I'll never understand the obsession with reading so many books and doing so many courses.
- indreklasn 10y agoCan confirm, I fell into this trap. Read books for about a year and realized I don't know shit and barely could code a hello world app. Then started actually applying those skills to hobby projects and learned 500x much more that way.
- Etheryte 10y agoNo amount of books will ever replace rote practice and just doing the work.
- matthewvincent 10y agoI'd say JS essential reading would be: 1. JavaScript the good parts - because classic 2. You don't know JS series - because depth 3. Functional JavaScript - because underscore Then you're done. Go find a Node or front end framework tutorial and blast off from there. Build build build.
- ramblerman 10y agoSave time and skip 1) It's nice to know some historical context around this/hoisting. But it will come up in YDKJS too. Start your journey on ES6.