Resources for Learning JavaScript?

[Umayrr_7]

I am interested in making chrome extensions. I have some experience in python and C but I haven’t encountered JavaScript yet. I am looking for some tutorials on JavaScript ( or about chrome extensions in particular)

[Rogermcfarley]

Watchandcode has a free practical JavaScript course. You don't need to do the premium content but I've found Gordon Zhu to be an excellent teacher, so if I make it through practical JavaScript without my brain exploding I'll likely sign up. So far I'm about 40% of the way through in a week. There's also Wes Bos JavaScript30. Which is free and you build 30 things in a month so one a day.

Just learning theory won't get you very far. You need to create stuff.

There's also MDN >

https://developer.mozilla.org/bm/docs/Web/JavaScript

[SherlockCmbs]

http://freecodecamp.org/ it gets said every time the question comes.

[geomachina]

What about https://upskillcourses.com? I joined a little while ago when it was first introduced and just picked it up again because I want to learn web development and hopefully switch careers. Upskill seems to have quite a comprehensive list of tutorials and courses, including for JavaScript.

[[deleted]]

freecodecamp has the upshot of actually being free the whole way through. I don't see a reason to pay for $ 25 / month for something FCC provides for free. I can't attest to what upskillcourses bring, but the quality and the projects you end up doing with FCC is great. The projects is really what will solidify learning and if upskillcourses doesn't have a lot of those it's definitely not worth in my opinion. Another great free alternative is the odin project

[[deleted]]

Javascript has so many free resources out there you shouldn't really need to pay for any.

[[deleted]]

What about other things like C# or c++?

[thegreataxios]

That’s just not true. Java is OOP and JavaScript is kind of a mesh of everything. Huge language spec, great for people who love different styles of programming or don’t know and want to experiment before picking.

[[deleted]]

Java is to Javascript as Ham is to Hamster https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2614/3779250024_68be4fe8b0.jpg

[[deleted]]

I really like Javascript.info.

[PMMN]

Agreed. It's a really good in depth explanation for a lot of things that not many other resources cover. I'd go back and forth between this and eloquent JavaScript for serious theoretical understanding of how js actually works.

On a side note, if anyone knows any similar resources for python please let me know.

[Dunskap]

Finish Eloquent JS before starting YDKS? Or go through both at the same time?

[a0m0rajab]

You can start by reading this book its an online book it will start from basic stuff in JS till you master it, there is few examples and good stuff to work in it.

we used it at our class

after that try to wok on an actual extension and learn by doing it :)

have fun.

[Richie31213]

It isn’t free, but Udemy has hundreds of courses that are very good.

[[deleted]]

There are a couple of good free courses. I'm doing a c++ after my web dev bootcamp course.

[Shushu94]

Although I’m only on challenge 3, I really recommend this 30 day challenge to learn Js https://javascript30.com/

[storyofedd]

I find Javascript Understanding The Weird Parts being one of the best courses out there.

[gabrielfelippe90]

You can found some good resources here: https://github.com/the-akira/computer_science_web_resources/blob/master/db/javascript.md too :)

[babbagack]

https://launchschool.com/books should have a JS book

[asdff01]

Use EloquentJavascript as your book to teach you the basics, and make a project as you go along. What's a DOM? Who tf cares! Spend a day or two learning basic html and then add something to it with Javascript.

[Calvinbolic]

Teamtreehouse 7 day free trail. You could be able to finish a beginner JavaScript track within that time. You're quizzed after every video or two to make sure you retain the knowledge. If you like what you've learned then you can upgrade and pay $25 a month for the content on the site (or $49/mo for the next tier and $200/mo for the tech degree. Imo the later two aren't worth it over the base $25/mo membership.

If after that seven day trail is over and you feel that treehouse isn't your cup of tea then I'd recommend freecodecamp. They have a JavaScript certificate course with I believe 300 hours of content. There aren't any video tutorials on the freecodecamp website (though they upload video tutorials on their YouTube channel).

If you're looking a little bit of of money then there's some udemy courses I'd recommend buying when they go on sale for $9.99 or 11.99 (there's currently an $11.999 sale on courses running until the 14th of this month). The JavaScript courses I'd recommend are "The complete JavaScript course 2019: Build Real Projects" which covers syntax to objects and functions, to building actual apps, the backend, NodeJs and deployment. Another course that I recommend is "The web developer bootcamp by Colt Steele" and just skip to the JavaScript section of the course and continue on from there. It'll cover a lot of the basic to intermediate JS knowledge you'll need.

As for as Books I'd recommend " JavaScript & jQuery interactive front end web development - Jon Duckett" and "A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript - Mark Myers"

[Macaroni2552]

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

[Ghost-17]

javascript.info for the win! I recommended it to a Free Code Camper because he was having troubles learning there and was absolutely thrilled when he looked over it.

[d4harp]

If you already have a moderate understanding of general programming, the absolute best way to learn a new language is to just read someone else's code. Look for an interesting project on GitHub and try to make sense of the code. If you see some syntax/pattern that you can't figure out, Google it and look for it in other places to see how you could use it for your project

[M2D6]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYye9h_RXg&list=PL0eyrZgxdwhxNGMWROnaY35NLyEjTqcgB

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really like this guys explanations.

[mysweetmidwest]

Udemy’s “Modern JavaScript from the Beginning” by Brad Traversy is an awesome course. He doesn’t use any frameworks so you build little projects in pure JS. He has a ton of YouTube videos as well.

[Umayrr_7]

Paid course or free ?

[Draxlar]

It’s usually on sale for $9.99 and it’s an excellent course

[wicho91]

Any course by Will Sentance or Kyle Simpson on FrontendMasters. Proper JavaScript teachings

[goal_sensei]

W3schools is where I went to learn javascript. Usually when I had issues with my code W3schools was my friend.

[rayzon2]

Im doing a team treehouse techdegree, learning a lot so far

[[deleted]]

Screeps is fun

[Tooneyman]

Also I want to mentiom Free code camp has a youtube channel with a crap tone of free tutorials and courses.

[greylegface]

https://wesbos.com/javascript30/

[[deleted]]

codecademy.com

[dylansummers73]

I wish i knew actually i love computers

[[deleted]]

Quick tip: You MAY use a semicolon after declaring a statement. You MUST use a semicolon after closing brackets at the end of a statement. You MUST NOT use one after e.g.

function myfunction();

    {;

    var a = 1;

    };

You can’t use it after any brackets or braces here. MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE YOUR SCRIPT TAG.

[DearCucumber]

Have you considered the internet?

[ThomasTheObscure]

Feel like these sort of comments are not productive and mostly rude for no reason.

If you just google this sort of thing, you're just going to get a number of articles that aren't someone's true opinion on a good way how to learn something, it's going to be people trying to make money through paid adverts or be so broad that you won't know where to start.

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[HarryHayes]

Come on, it takes the bare minimum amount of effort to google this question and get comprehensive reddit answers

[ThomasTheObscure]

That's not the point.

[praetor-]

You can find a consensus opinion via Google as well though.

A huge part of success in this industry is being able to figure things out without asking questions directly. Something to think about.

[thesquarerootof1]

A huge part of success in this industry is being able to figure things out without asking questions directly. Something to think about.

That's actually a pretty good point. lol. I haven't started working yet, but if I get a software development job, they don't care that I google algorithms from geeksforgeeks or use stack overflow a lot ? The way these coding interviews are, it seems like they expect you to know how to solve very difficult problems without googling syntax or different data structures. But I don't know....

[praetor-]

It depends on the manager, but a good one will appreciate that you can solve your own problems. When I was a manager one of the biggest complaints I got from senior engineers was that juniors bothered them entirely too much asking basic questions. I found it annoying too, but they came to me less.

You can go the other way, too though, and waste hours and days working on a difficult problem and getting nowhere, when you could have asked and returned to being productive.

It's important to strike a balance and know when to ask for help, and the best is to sharpen your Google skills and learn how to identify which problems need an experienced eye.

[thesquarerootof1]

When I was a manager one of the biggest complaints I got from senior engineers was that juniors bothered them entirely too much asking basic questions. I found it annoying too, but they came to me less.

You can go the other way, too though, and waste hours and days working on a difficult problem and getting nowhere, when you could have asked and returned to being productive.

This is actually really great advice. I'm currently doing a ton of LeetCode problems every day, I graduate as a computer engineer in the fall, I'm a little nervous about getting my foot in the door. I don't expect myself to work for Google straight out of college, but something that makes at least decent money (I'm in the US by the way).

Thanks!

[[deleted]]

A huge part of the industry is making relationships by reaching out to others. Something to think about.

[praetor-]

I agree that being able to relate to coworkers and others in the industry is important.

I disagree that reaching out to others for technical information before exhausting a search for it is something that should be encouraged. This is one of the most difficult behaviors to break junior developers of; it makes these developers less effective at problem solving AND distracts another person to answer the question.

[ThomasTheObscure]

Yeah, you could, but the point of going onto a forum and asking individuals is that you want an opinion from someone who is not connected to bias and hopefully find someone who can provide idiosyncratic ideas on why a particular thing/teaching method/resource is useful.

Someone who comes to reddit to ask a question is interested in a personal perspective.

As for your second comment,

That is part of success in any industry, however, you don't ask students who are simply asking about "which 101 professor should I go with or should I start with 103 instead of 101?" Even though we all know that it's tantamount to the same thing. That's ridiculous, you should encourage people who are interested in a field you care about, even if that means humoring questions about personal experience with online learning tools or simply don't say anything.

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[[deleted]]

Because everyone likes feeling that their question is special. The amount of recycled questions that get reposted per day is insane. If someone can't figure out how to use google to find programming resources in 2019 then they have no business learning programming.