Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant?

Posted by skfroi on Monday June 23, 2014 @12:19PM
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During the past year I've been heavily involved in building and strengthening the tech community in Puerto Rico. As a result many students and beginning devs have asked me for advice on how to really learn Javascript. My response is always "start with Javascript the Good Parts".

In the state the the JS world is right now does this still hold true? Should I recomend some other book in addition to JtGP?

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by tgriesser on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:02PM (#7933041)

"The Good Parts" is still a good one, but my recommendation these days now goes to Effective Javascript:

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software...

Outside of books, http://superherojs.com is another good resource to recommend.

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by skfroi on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:13PM (#7933095)

Thanks!

http://superherojs.com look really good. I'll definitely check it out.

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by peterashford on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:00PM (#7935683)

It strikes me as a poor apology for the crap status of JS with a sprinkle of Douglas's debatable opinion rather than a useful primer in modern JS.

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by bonsai on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:30AM (#7936568)

I can highly recommend books written by Nicholas Zakas.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nic...

There is one shorter book that he wrote recently: https://leanpub.com/oopinjavascript

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by petercooper on Friday June 27, 2014 @06:58AM (#7953461)

Speaking JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer http://speakingjs.com/ is quite well suited for people coming from other languages rather than newbies to programming.

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by manishsharan on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @11:01AM (#7938121)

You may also want to check out Eloquent Javascript . http://eloquentjavascript.net/ . This is my goto book for Javascript

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by kb19 on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:22AM (#7942222)

Javascript the Good Parts is for folks who already know Javascript. The concepts are more advanced than most beginners would encounter (currying, memoization etc).

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Re:Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant? by _random_ on Monday June 23, 2014 @03:23PM (#7933951)

I would recommend pointing them to this resource as well (19 pages and counting): http://wtfjs.com

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