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Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant?
During the past year I've been heavily involved in building and strengthening the tech community in Puerto Rico. As a result many students and beginning devs have asked me for advice on how to really learn Javascript. My response is always "start with Javascript the Good Parts".
In the state the the JS world is right now does this still hold true? Should I recomend some other book in addition to JtGP?
- tgriesser 12y ago"The Good Parts" is still a good one, but my recommendation these days now goes to Effective Javascript: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software-Development/dp/0321812182/ http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software... Outside of books, http://superherojs.com http://superherojs.com is another good resource to recommend.
- skfroi 12y agoThanks! http://superherojs.com http://superherojs.com look really good. I'll definitely check it out.
- _random_ 12y agoI would recommend pointing them to this resource as well (19 pages and counting): http://wtfjs.com http://wtfjs.com
- peterashford 12y agoIt strikes me as a poor apology for the crap status of JS with a sprinkle of Douglas's debatable opinion rather than a useful primer in modern JS.
- bonsai 12y agoI can highly recommend books written by Nicholas Zakas. http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nicholas-Zakas/dp/1118026691/ http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nic... There is one shorter book that he wrote recently: https://leanpub.com/oopinjavascript https://leanpub.com/oopinjavascript
- manishsharan 12y agoYou may also want to check out Eloquent Javascript . http://eloquentjavascript.net/ http://eloquentjavascript.net/ . This is my goto book for Javascript
- kb19 12y agoJavascript the Good Parts is for folks who already know Javascript. The concepts are more advanced than most beginners would encounter (currying, memoization etc).
- petercooper 12y agoSpeaking JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer http://speakingjs.com/ http://speakingjs.com/ is quite well suited for people coming from other languages rather than newbies to programming.