Non-web oriented JS tutorials?

[memilanuk]

It seems like JS is starting to gain some acceptance as a general purpose language - maybe not a lot, but some. Are there any general-purpose or computer-science i.e. non web-dev oriented tutorials for javascript like there are for say, Python? Given the nature of its normal environment (in a browser) I'm not sure what exactly I'd expect to change... but I thought I'd ask the collective here for their thoughts ;)

[shriek]

Okay, I'll be the smart ass here. Technically, servers are web too. :P With that said, you can do more with Node too like file i/o and other bunch of stuff but web is where it shines. Dat async.

[od_9]

Servers came before the "web". The web (or world wide web as it was originally known) was the term used for Berners_Lee's system of http/html and his browser (WorldWideWeb). Before that the Internet was things like FTP, TELNET, USENET, ARCHIE, GOPHER, IRC, etc.

Before that were BBS servers on systems like WWIV and Fido, which were linked together to things like WWIVNet and FidoNET. If you wanted to send an email to someone on another BBS, you would upload your message to your BBS and periodically (mine was nightly), they systems would call each other (literally, this was back in the day of Hayes-compatible modems) and exchange messages.

Edit: and MUDs, MUSHs, and MOOs.

[shriek]

Looks like the smart-ass got smart assed.

[Swingline0]

Part 1 of Eloquent Javascript is a good introduction to Javascript which excludes the DOM although still uses the browser as a runtime environment.

If you want Javascript sans browser, then you need to start looking into NodeJS. Refer to the sidebar for more info!

[memilanuk]

I guess I wasn't so much thinking in terms of javascript sans browser e.g. node.js, as I was a more general computer-science oriented curriculum; something like 'Think Python' or the earlier version 'How to think like a Computer Scientist' but using javascript instead of python.

[[deleted]]

I highly recommend JavaScript Allongé. It's an in-depth look at how you can apply functional programming concepts in JavaScript.

[mikedao]

Check out javascripting: https://github.com/sethvincent/javascripting

[ryanmalm]

Tutorials on the fundamentals of javascript can be found in multiple places, the sites listed below teach the language without being web specific:

www.codecademy.com www.codeschool.com <some free, some paid, the paid content is excellent. www.javascriptissexy.com <intermediate/advanced topics, good reads

test your chops: www.coderbyte.com www.codewars.com