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A comment on Ask Hackers: How to become the best JavaScript programmer? (q by 12yr old).

Re:Ask Hackers: How to become the best JavaScript programmer... by aneesh on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @05:36PM (#135498)
1) Work on challenging problems. Try to do something you're not sure you can.

2) Find a good mentor - it could be a prof at a local university, family friend who is a hacker

3) Practice, practice, practice - write javascript to make stuff for fun.

4) Go to websites you like and de-construct their javascript code and figure out what it's doing.

5) Don't be shy to reach out for advice, like you're doing now.

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Re:Ask Hackers: How to become the best JavaScript programmer... by pibefision on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @07:46PM (#135599)
6) Go to school, even when you are not going to learn Javascript there, you are going to learn a lot of things that are very important for your projects too.
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Re:Ask Hackers: How to become the best JavaScript programmer... by llimllib on Thursday March 13, 2008 @11:11AM (#135988)
> Go to school... you are going to learn...

The learning will not come to you, you need to go out and get it. Don't just go to school, attack school, suck the juice out of the fruit, and have fun doing it. Make it fun and hard.

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