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What should I “forget” when going to Javascript? [closed]
I went from C=64 Basic and assembler to FORTRAN and C to C++ and Java. Professionally I started in Visual Basic for applications then to Visual Basic 4, 5, 6. After that VB.NET AND C# with some Java ...
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How do I make sense of the javascript frameworks explosion ? Should I learn them all?
For a beginner web developer who is still doing web development the conventional way (PHP/J2EE/Struts on server side, HTML/CSS/Javascript on client side), I was bowled over by the recent blog post on ...
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JavaScript a good more complex examples [closed]
I don't know much about real JavaScript except some really minor things like using some JQuery, reading JavaScript Good Parts book, but what I would really need is some application that I could dig ...
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Learning on the Job: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, BackBone and jQuery
I have avoided JavaScript for as long as I could.
I simply think that it is a very, very dirty scripting language. I have nothing against curly braces, I work with PHP almost every day, I'm fine with ...
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Javascript - is this a grey area for anyone else?
I have a firm understanding of HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL (and to some extent apache/linux) and find that one of the things missing from my 'web development knowledge base' is javascript - creating richer ...
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Should I learn Javascript before Coffeescript?
I'm a reasonably experienced programmer trying to learn web developement. I'm trying to develop a client-side web application which uses svg or canvas for graphics. I've decided I'd like to write ...
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How to handle large scale js+jquery projects using well written, Object-Oriented JavaScript and jQuery code?
I love the whole user experience/interface thing and put a lot of jQuery and JavaScript (pure JavaScript for HTML5 stuff, like canvas, file API, etc). The problem I face now is that my codes are ...
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How do I “ease into” programming coming from a designer background?
Is there a way I can 'ease in' to programming. Like learning to use/modify CGI scripts to add some functions to a basic html site? Even if it's the only thing I learn it's still useful, right?. Unlike ...
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Javascript and Jquery learning [closed]
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Best Javascript tutorial so i can get started on JQuery?
I have managed to master XHTML/CSS and now I'm thinking to move on and try to learn jquery.There is only one ...
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How can I actually apply the javascript I am learning
I am a front end programmer. I'm good with design, html, css, and jquery, but I want to learn javascript more than anything. I've taken a couple of courses, read books and tutorials online and feel ...
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Resource to start with JavaScript quickly?
Previously, I wanted to learn Python quickly:
Resource to start with Python quickly?
and I was quite successful (enough to write a simplified LISP interpreter).
Now I need to learn JavaScript for ...
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Choosing a JavaScript Asynch-Loader
I’ve been looking at various asynchronous resource-loaders and I’m not sure which one to use yet. Where I work we have disparate group-efforts whose class-modules may use different versions of jQuery ...
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Javascript project for analysis and learning
I started learning and using Javascript now for about six months.
First i started by following different tutorial on the internet. Testing them, playing with them and trying different variation. ...
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When learning JS, what was your your Aha-moment? [closed]
Do you remember when you were learning JavaScript? What was the moment that you suddenly "got it"? (For example, my CSS aha-moment was when I learnt about the box model...)
The reason I´m asking is ...
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How necessary is it to learn JavaScript before jQuery?
In my opinion, when I looked at JavaScript, it looked like not my cup of tea. When I came across jQuery, I loved it. I sat and watched Nettuts+ 15 days of jQuery screencasts, 1 year later and now I'm ...
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The importance of javascript and the best way to learn it?
I'm a new graduate, but I have been doing web development for about six months. When I was finishing university the server side languages (PHP, Java) were more important then client side languages. ...
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What are the steps to learn AJAX based web application development?
I am a complete starter in web development, as I know only basics of HTML and CSS, although I have a history of desktop development. What is the usual roadmap to get started in web apps, based on ...