JavaScript is one of those languages I thought I knew.<\/p>\n
For way too long, writing JavaScript was done solely to manipulate HTML pages.\u00a0 My background is C\/C++, and I have dabbled in Java and numerous scripting languages.<\/p>\n
Recent opportunities transpired which allowed me to spend some time actually learning JavaScript.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Here is what I recommend:<\/p>\n
Read JavaScript: The Definitive Guide<\/a> by David Flanagan. Luckily I had purchased the 5th edition many many years ago, and like all books, I did not read it. This is the only book recommended by Douglas Crockford<\/a>.<\/p>\n I read it cover to cover, digesting all the the language offered.<\/p>\n The next step is to know which bits to ignore, which is done by reading JavaScript: The Good Parts<\/a> by Douglas Crockford himself. You can find a PDF version of the book via Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch any of the Douglas Crockford JavaScript videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n The easiest way to play with JavaScript is to download node.js<\/a>, which allows you to write pure JavaScript outside of the confines of the browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JavaScript is one of those languages I thought I knew. For way too long, writing JavaScript was done solely to manipulate HTML pages.\u00a0 My background is C\/C++, and I have dabbled in Java and numerous scripting languages. Recent opportunities transpired which allowed me to spend some time actually learning JavaScript.\u00a0 Here is what I recommend: … Continue reading Understanding JavaScript<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madlid.com\/madlid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}