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Ask HN: Good Javascript learning exercise suggestions
Can you offer some suggestions of good Javascript exercises ? Both for beginner and advanced ?
I was thinking of a web based chat for advanced (this sounded a bit tricky that's why I picked it), and for something simple I had in mind tricks and animations for a form using jquery.
For books I had in mind :
http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596101996/wrrrldwideweb
Thanks.
- spooneybarger 16y agoThe Good Parts is the best Javascript book I've ever read. You can't go wrong with getting it. I had people who worked for me ( and who came from a very-algol based language background) read it; in the words of one: 'an earth shattering eye opener'.
- brandonkm 16y agoFor books I recommend the Javascript Cookbook ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596806132/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596806132/ ). It was released a few days ago and from the parts I've read so far, covers a lot of use cases for the language as well as lots of HTML 5 + ECMAscript 5 bits. If you're interested in building something with a client-side js framework, you should check out this tutorial http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb . It covers how to build a simple blog app with node.js and express.
- sirrocco 16y agoA node.js tutorial was also something that I was looking for, so thanks for that. If you have any more ideas both for beginners and advanced, it would be great.
- mickeyben 16y agoBe aware this node.js tutorial is working with the v0.14 of the express web framework but the 1.0 is in beta 2 right now with a lot of api changes.