I would read the core documentation (maybe takes 4 hours), then find a project you to do in node and do a lot of googling on ways to get certain aspects done.

I would read the core documentation (maybe takes 4 hours), then find a project you to do in node and do a lot of googling on ways to get certain aspects done. It is an unstructured way to learn and can be slightly inefficient since you will go down a few rabbit holes, but I think you will learn a lot more and have a lot more fun. When you are in the docs make sure you focus on stream, callbacks, and event emitters. Once you have those down start gluing NPM modules together.