The Learning Process
Learn Javascript you will.
Practice Makes Perfect
"It takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field."
Malcolm Gladwell
You may not need to become a Jedi Master, but to get anywhere you are going to have put some time in.
Kung Fu
Kung Fu means supreme skill through hard word
What's Your Style?
Everyone learns differently. Find out the style that is best for you.
Personal Projects
The best way to get good at coding is practical experience. Make your own passion project and get stuck in!
Read the Source, Luke
Take the time to read the source code of other projects. It will greatly help you write better code.
Meet Ups
Go to a meet up and talk to other developers. It's a great way to find out what's happening in the world of Javascript.
Confusion is your friend
The feeling of confusion is your friend, it means your are learning something!
- Mattias Petter Johansson, Fun Fun Function
GTL
Stands for Grok, Trunk, Live.
Adapted from the seminal talk Learn Brogramming, The Hard Way by Chad.
Grok
Learn something new everyday.
Trunk
Trunk is more than just the SVN directory.
Trunking is a way of life; it's expanding the tools in your programming tool belt to make you adapt to any situation.
Live
Life is short; don't forget to have fun.
How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
- TD:DR There is a lot to learn.
Hold tight! We hope this handbook gives you a tour of the Javascript jungle and shows you the good parts.