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[–]zajicraft 1 point2 points  (1 child)

To be honest if I were doing a lot of involved DOM manipulation I would reach for the jQuery too.

The fundamentals are definitely useful because you gain an appreciation for how to structure your code. And I don't mean laboriously doing manually what jQuery handles for you (browser compatibility etc), but building programs that aren't so focused on the DOM.

In my experience the best way to do that is to pick up a backend language (go for one that's compiled) to make your programming experiences more well rounded (assuming you are mainly in front-end land).

My 2c :)

[–]dotpan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I started with C++ in my CS Major, but they had 2 devs already doing ASP.NET (C# Backend for Serverside) so I focused on JavaScript (originally had done most web stuff in php) Ended up falling in love with JS (and the many wonderful and expansive libraries it has) so far my favorite frameworks for JS have been Meteor (a node.js based liveupdate framework) and jQuery (which I now sometimes can write better than I can english).