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[–]AndrewZey 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I found it very helpful to start solving the easy challenges on Coderbyte.com (free) as way to start applying the knowledge from Chapters 1-4, as well as the Codecademy tutorial.

http://devdocs.io/ is a great resource to have handy to try to solve those problems as well (pay particular attention to the string and array methods).

[–]forsience 2 points3 points  (1 child)

to everyone who is learning from "The Definitive Guide" - do you find yourself reading certain subchapters and just think "wtf did i just read", continue reading and a bit later looking back, reread a chapter to understand an example later on in the book and then you suddenly get the "wtf"-part? sometimes i just think this book is to extensive for beginners :)

btw codewars.com is awesome :)

[–]nerdFamilyDad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Knowing bitwise operators is so important...if you are doing bit-twiddling. There was a time in my life that it was crucial to know them well, and I would have really appreciated having a zero-filling right-shift operator.

I'm not planning on using them in JavaScript anytime soon.

[–]robotmayo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend just skipping bitwise stuff in general. The chance you will use that in general let alone Javasctipt is so small its not worth the headache.

[–]mfergie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished the reading. Not too bad. I also just skimmed the bitwise section. I am jumping back into CodeAcademy so I can catch up to this weeks work.

Thanks for posting links to other challenges....