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Ask HN: Best ES5 JavaScript textbook?
Hi HN!
I have a father-in-law who teaches robotics classes to elementary-school-aged children.
Recently, he's started getting involved in MIT's AppInventor to build mobile apps. These mobile apps support web views, which means he's started learning Javascript.
To make these classes possible, he buys bulk used Android phones, for like $3 a piece. Often they are several years old.
I'm a JS dev by trade, but the work I do feels pretty far removed from this stuff. I certainly don't think it makes sense to teach him about webpack/babel/react/etc.
For Christmas this year I'd like to get him a book of some kind that teaches ES5 JS. Ideally, it wouldn't just be the 2013-edition of some current book; JS has trended in recent years towards a mix of OOP and functional programming. What I'd like is a book written for the modern dev who needs to support old devices and who doesn't want to set up a transpiler/bundler.
I have no idea if such a book exists, but would love recommendations! Happy with other formats as well (online courses, whatever).