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A comment on Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming from C++/Java/Python?.

Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by tworats on Thursday October 21, 2010 @12:35PM (#1816201)
I'm shocked nobody's recommended Douglas Crockford's ... well ... everything:

http://javascript.crockford.com/

Watch the "Javascript: The Good Parts" presentation:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/06/08/video-crockford-goodstuff...

Also check out Dustin Diaz's stuff:

http://www.dustindiaz.com/

I found his screencasts where you watch him program to be incredibly helpful:

http://www.dustindiaz.com/screencast-episode-01/

Start your javascript programming with jQuery. Good javascript style is not at all like Java, so forget everything you know about Java and see how jQuery does it.

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by thetylerhayes on Thursday October 21, 2010 @01:24PM (#1816498)
Absolutely Douglas Crockford. His live presentations are the single most helpful and, more importantly, realistic/down-to-earth description of Javascript out there.
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