> On the "shoulders of giants" means we don't need to know javascript as well as jQuery. Not necessarily. I like to view it this way: When you are learning a n

> On the "shoulders of giants" means we don't need to know javascript as well as jQuery. Not necessarily. I like to view it this way: When you are learning a new language (English, German, Chinese, whatever), in day to day conversations it is useful to know some expressions, idioms, or terms, but you should also know where they come from and how to explain them, and not just how to use them. Learning what "I'm pissed" means in British english is quite nice but if you say that to an American and responds "Who pissed you?", how are going to teach this person of the use of the word "pissed" in this context? Similarly, a jQuery-only developer will find it difficult to understand and explain what he meant to do with some piece of code, let's say $.each. A "native speaker", ie. a javascript developer, may be able to offer some advice or corrections, like "you could use Array.forEach in this scenario". (Granted this particular example may not be so good due but you get the point).