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Learn jQuery & JavaScript for Free

82 points by mikehostetler 15y ago

levidehaan 15y ago
This is awesome!
m_rookie 15y ago
Beautiful site
RedWolves 15y ago
I saw this yesterday. Very high quality video lessons in short bites. I'd be curious to know what they have planned for future lessons?
- mikehostetler 15y ago
  We have several things planned. Follow us on twitter @appendto to be notified.
  - RedWolves 15y ago
    Will it just be jQuery lessons? Any plans for Dojo or mootools types of lessons? What about lessons for micro libraries like yepnope for example?
    - mikehostetler 15y ago
      appendTo is a company founded by former members of the jQuery project. While we consider ourselves JavaScript experts, we are focused on jQuery. We do expect to include micro libraries such as YepNope as we get to them.
Encosia 15y ago
These first lessons are probably on the elementary side for a lot of us here, but be sure to check one of them out just to see how the navigation system in the player works. I wish every online video tutorial worked like that. It goes a long way toward mitigating how unscannable video is for tutorial content.
- RedWolves 15y ago
  I have to agree the course map is very slick.
levidehaan 15y ago
who is that guy with the silky voice, its mesmerizing, its like learning through osmosis.
- jechen 15y ago
  I laughed so hard at this.
shubber 15y ago
I feel a bit churlish, but this kind of thing always leaves me nonplussed. jQuery and Javascript have excellent references, and I have a hard time understanding how anyone really learns any technical topic without working with the technology and exploring the reference. I know this is my own auto-didactic prejudice, but I see a lot of this screencast stuff and am set back by how much people seem to want to be spoon-fed skills, and by my own disbelief that skill can be acquired that way.
- RedWolves 15y ago
  I think it more in line with the enterprise developer that is thrown into a development world they don't fully understand and need to get up to speed quickly.
- mikehostetler 15y ago
  The target for content like this is the developer who prefers to be walked through the content. They need to visualize the content, be talked through the examples and "spoon fed" the information. One of the main features is the ability to track their progress on a public transcript page which people can link to to prove that they've gone through the material.
- kenjackson 15y ago
  I have a hard time understanding how anyone really learns any technical topic without working with the technology and exploring the reference I think you'd be surprised. I learned C and C++ and never looked at the reference (standard) for either until far after I was proficient (with C I learned it a fair bit before a standard existed). I learned by reading Stroustrup, K&R, Lippman, etc... I learned JS by reading Crockford -- and while I've spent a fair bit of time looking at the jQuery reference docs, I don't think I've ever looked at the JS reference docs. I think a lot of people learn languages/frameworks/tools from reading blogs/books/webpages/videos and not the actual reference docs.
  - thomasgerbe 15y ago
    You'd be right. I didn't understand reference docs on Actionscript until well after I had consumed a couple excellent introductory tutorials and browsed tons of forum threads.
pbjorklund 15y ago
Content aside, this looks really really good. I went looking for the pricing table before actually playing a video. (Well, I did watch the sites intro video ofcourse) Love the map and fiddle integration. Can't wait to see what pops up down the line.
despite2 15y ago
Anybody able to get the videos to play on Android? I see they have HTML5 video, and my phone tries to play it, but it fails.
- kalleboo 15y ago
  The HTML5 video plays fine for me. Xperia Arc, Android 2.3.3
benregenspan 15y ago
I want my $120K of jQuery University tuition back.
- RedWolves 15y ago
  But it was fun wasn't it?
astrofinch 15y ago
This book is supposed to be good: http://jqfundamentals.com/ http://jqfundamentals.com/
- aptsurdist 15y ago
  Good tutorial. I recommend checking out this version http://jqfundamentals.com/book/ http://jqfundamentals.com/book/ which is basically a prettier version of the home page. Weird that it isn't linked to from the home page.

82 points by mikehostetler 15y ago

levidehaan 15y ago

This is awesome!

m_rookie 15y ago

Beautiful site

RedWolves 15y ago

I saw this yesterday. Very high quality video lessons in short bites. I'd be curious to know what they have planned for future lessons?

mikehostetler 15y ago
We have several things planned. Follow us on twitter @appendto to be notified.
- RedWolves 15y ago
  Will it just be jQuery lessons? Any plans for Dojo or mootools types of lessons? What about lessons for micro libraries like yepnope for example?
  - mikehostetler 15y ago
    appendTo is a company founded by former members of the jQuery project. While we consider ourselves JavaScript experts, we are focused on jQuery. We do expect to include micro libraries such as YepNope as we get to them.

Encosia 15y ago

These first lessons are probably on the elementary side for a lot of us here, but be sure to check one of them out just to see how the navigation system in the player works. I wish every online video tutorial worked like that. It goes a long way toward mitigating how unscannable video is for tutorial content.

RedWolves 15y ago
I have to agree the course map is very slick.

levidehaan 15y ago

who is that guy with the silky voice, its mesmerizing, its like learning through osmosis.

jechen 15y ago
I laughed so hard at this.

shubber 15y ago

I feel a bit churlish, but this kind of thing always leaves me nonplussed. jQuery and Javascript have excellent references, and I have a hard time understanding how anyone really learns any technical topic without working with the technology and exploring the reference. I know this is my own auto-didactic prejudice, but I see a lot of this screencast stuff and am set back by how much people seem to want to be spoon-fed skills, and by my own disbelief that skill can be acquired that way.

RedWolves 15y ago
I think it more in line with the enterprise developer that is thrown into a development world they don't fully understand and need to get up to speed quickly.
mikehostetler 15y ago
The target for content like this is the developer who prefers to be walked through the content. They need to visualize the content, be talked through the examples and "spoon fed" the information. One of the main features is the ability to track their progress on a public transcript page which people can link to to prove that they've gone through the material.
kenjackson 15y ago
I have a hard time understanding how anyone really learns any technical topic without working with the technology and exploring the reference I think you'd be surprised. I learned C and C++ and never looked at the reference (standard) for either until far after I was proficient (with C I learned it a fair bit before a standard existed). I learned by reading Stroustrup, K&R, Lippman, etc... I learned JS by reading Crockford -- and while I've spent a fair bit of time looking at the jQuery reference docs, I don't think I've ever looked at the JS reference docs. I think a lot of people learn languages/frameworks/tools from reading blogs/books/webpages/videos and not the actual reference docs.
- thomasgerbe 15y ago
  You'd be right. I didn't understand reference docs on Actionscript until well after I had consumed a couple excellent introductory tutorials and browsed tons of forum threads.

pbjorklund 15y ago

Content aside, this looks really really good. I went looking for the pricing table before actually playing a video. (Well, I did watch the sites intro video ofcourse) Love the map and fiddle integration. Can't wait to see what pops up down the line.

despite2 15y ago

Anybody able to get the videos to play on Android? I see they have HTML5 video, and my phone tries to play it, but it fails.

kalleboo 15y ago
The HTML5 video plays fine for me. Xperia Arc, Android 2.3.3

benregenspan 15y ago

I want my $120K of jQuery University tuition back.

RedWolves 15y ago
But it was fun wasn't it?

astrofinch 15y ago

This book is supposed to be good: http://jqfundamentals.com/ http://jqfundamentals.com/

aptsurdist 15y ago
Good tutorial. I recommend checking out this version http://jqfundamentals.com/book/ http://jqfundamentals.com/book/ which is basically a prettier version of the home page. Weird that it isn't linked to from the home page.