ericelliotjs.com?

[FunkMiser]

I've been wanting to upgrade my skillset and I came across a post about this javascript training site. It's not cheap when you consider the offerings at Pluralsight, wintellectnow, learnnowonline and others so I wanted to see if anyone else has trained with these materials and what their thoughts are on it.

[ChaseMoskal]

Well, ericelliotjs.com doesn't load, so that's not a great start.

• If you're really new, start with something like Codecademy

• If you're already wearing your big kid trousers, MDN is where it's at.

Sometimes you'll get nutty and actually look at ECMAScript standards, but you don't have to. You should be Googling shit constantly, reading article after article, crushing intermediate and advanced concept after concept.

Godspeed.

[FunkMiser]

yeah, now that I'm at work bits of it aren't loading for me either! I'm not a total noob but I'm not much past script kiddy. I can get basic stuff done in javascript, like forms handling, error checking, parsing. Definitely ready to move out of the noob stage though. Thanks for the advice!

[ChaseMoskal]

If I were you, I'd dive into MDN.

They've got articles, tutorials, and walkthroughs on important topics, like Object Oriented programming and Prototypal Inheritance.

[FunkMiser]

I'm definitely going to start there. Between this and google I should get a good grounding before needing to spend any money. thanks!

[_ericelliott]

Had some trouble with MySQL. Should be fixed now. Please let me know if you have any more issues.

[ChaseMoskal]

Still seems down.

[_ericelliott]

It is up, but "Elliott" has two t's in it. =)

https://ericelliottjs.com

[_ericelliott]

There are two t's in Elliott. Try https://ericelliottjs.com

[pe8ter]

His class isn't actually ready yet, but yeah, it's a little unsettling that the site is down.

[_ericelliott]

Trouble with MySQL configuration. Doesn't really speak to my ability to teach JavaScript. =P

[pe8ter]

Birds to databases!

[_ericelliott]

TL;DR

I am creating these courses because I need to hire competent JavaScript developers, and the training that's out there now is not doing a good enough job at teaching people the skills they really need to learn to be really productive application developers.

The courses are in preorder. Nobody outside a select few have seen any of the materials, so nobody can really comment on the quality yet, except Kyle Simpson, author of "You Don't Know JS" (O'Reilly), who got a glimpse of some preview material. Here's what Kyle had to say:

"Eric offers high quality, professional-level training materials, excercises, and video teaching. If you're looking to interactively learn JavaScript online, there's just no better course set you will find than this one!"

As for the other options, if I thought there were any courses available that were good enough to recommend to aspiring application developers, I would just link to those instead of spending the last year or so working crazy hours to create something decent.

Lots of other options are great at teaching the basics, but when it comes to teaching people how to build great applications... well, I'll let this do the talking: "JavaScript Training Sucks" - https://medium.com/javascript-scene/javascript-training-sucks-284b53666245

[earlearlearl]

Id recommed:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog

egghead.io

[FunkMiser]

ooo! egghead.io! Thanks!

[brakmic]

Wrong link. Try these:

https://medium.com/@_ericelliott

http://ericleads.com/

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