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Re:Master JavaScript Programming with 18 Open-Source Books by sotojuan on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:58AM (#13784185)
The only way to master JS is to read one or two books (YDKJS being one of them) and then actually program projects of increasing ambition while asking questions and reading docs.

I'll never understand the obsession with reading so many books and doing so many courses.

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Re:Master JavaScript Programming with 18 Open-Source Books by indreklasn on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:09PM (#13784278)
Can confirm, I fell into this trap. Read books for about a year and realized I don't know shit and barely could code a hello world app. Then started actually applying those skills to hobby projects and learned 500x much more that way.
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Re:Master JavaScript Programming with 18 Open-Source Books by matthewvincent on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:52PM (#13785142)
I'd say JS essential reading would be:

1. JavaScript the good parts - because classic

2. You don't know JS series - because depth

3. Functional JavaScript - because underscore

Then you're done. Go find a Node or front end framework tutorial and blast off from there. Build build build.

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Re:Master JavaScript Programming with 18 Open-Source Books by ramblerman on Saturday March 04, 2017 @02:01AM (#13789713)
Save time and skip 1)

It's nice to know some historical context around this/hoisting. But it will come up in YDKJS too. Start your journey on ES6.

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Re:Master JavaScript Programming with 18 Open-Source Books by Etheryte on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:49PM (#13784613)
No amount of books will ever replace rote practice and just doing the work.
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