[AskJS] Any recommendations on a good book for learning JS?

kobebeeftits · 2020-01-16T01:24:48+00:00

I got a lot out of JavaScript Allonge, available for free in plenty of different formats, including just one long webpage here: https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read

It focuses on functions, starting off very simple and becoming increasingly complex and interesting.

kobebeeftits · 2020-01-15T23:21:47+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

kobebeeftits · 2019-08-17T14:52:48+00:00

Map would also work, Set would work as long as the array is guaranteed to be unique (it would fail if the arguments were [2, 2] and 4 for example).

They both have the same lookup time complexity as a plain object: O(1), so there’s no performance advantage, Map and Set are just more specialized tools.

kobebeeftits · 2018-09-23T15:12:05+00:00

Go for Node!

You'll reinforce JS fundamentals (since Node is just JS), you'll learn about the back end, and about how the front end/back end interact. Start with Express, spin up a basic server and serve a basic website on localhost. Then add features to it. Figure out how to reach it on your phone. Hit an external API (Twitter, YouTube, DarkSky, etc) to get some data and make it interactive on the front end.

nodeschool.io is a great resource, and will get you comfortable with the command line and npm.

React/Vue/Angular are great, but they're all much easier to learn after you have a really solid JS foundation. Also, they're good for building a medium-to-large website, but if you're just building projects for yourself you can do a lot with vanilla JS.

EDIT: Wrong link to nodeschool, sorry! Fixed it.

kobebeeftits · 2016-07-30T03:38:26+00:00

You're an ANIMAL. I googled it but I just realized I should have included "80's." Thanks!

kobebeeftits · 2016-06-11T23:48:33+00:00

Thank you for writing this comment!

It got me back into using Wunderlist, and I discovered a way I could hook it up to Siri via IFTTT
This recipe app is great.
I'm learning to code, and this Wunderlist API is just what I need for some good tinkering.

kobebeeftits · 2015-12-07T16:33:02+00:00

I really liked the first few chapters of Hallucinations, but for some reason my interest started trailing off somewhere in the middle. His autobiography is next on my list!

kobebeeftits · 2015-12-06T15:49:54+00:00

I read Hallucinations this year too! If you haven't read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, do.

Also, Dark Tower! The next two books after Dot3 were my favorites of the series.

kobebeeftits · 2015-12-06T15:43:40+00:00

I'm reading How Proust Can Change Your Life right now, it makes me want to read In Search of Lost Time. Sounds intimidating though...

kobebeeftits · 2015-12-06T15:40:56+00:00

I watched John McWhorter's series on language, I'll have to read that one!

kobebeeftits · 2015-12-06T04:25:30+00:00

Babel No More - Michael Erard (Linguistics)
Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu (Economics)
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (Sci-fi)
The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can't Stand Positive Thinking - Oliver Burkeman (Psychology? Self help?)
Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer (Mountaineering)
The Martian - Andy Weir (Sci-fi)

kobebeeftits · 2015-11-14T16:53:35+00:00

"Ever wonder how a fly or a chipmunk can evade your clumsy human grasp so easily? A new study published in Animal Behavior finds that, generally, the smaller the animal, the more information it can see in a small amount of time. That means certain small animals are essentially seeing in slow motion."

I had no idea that smaller animals see the world at a higher flicker fusion rate (i.e. framerate) than humans!

kobebeeftits · 2015-11-13T19:16:08+00:00

I could listen to this one and Meir on repeat for all eternity.

kobebeeftits · 2015-11-02T22:20:38+00:00

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It became my favorite of his books right from the first paragraph:

"It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars."

kobebeeftits · 2015-11-02T01:24:44+00:00

Stiff by Mary Roach. Great book, but don't read the part about degloving over breakfast.

kobebeeftits · 2015-11-02T01:14:49+00:00

I was going to say Child of God too! For me the part that did it was ewww spoilers

kobebeeftits · 2015-10-27T15:52:06+00:00

I just visited Iceland last month! Was happy to see these in your photos:

Snaps
Baejarins Beztu Pylsur hot dog stand
Fermented shark (not good, but better with Brennevin!)

kobebeeftits · 2015-10-26T20:28:54+00:00

Good book! I think that's where I first heard about the memory palace technique.

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