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Re: Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?

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Post by peterchon »

old_chap wrote: post #64
cdumler wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My go to for people new to JS.

I'm learning Javascript. I can safely say im comfortable with most fundemental programming concepts...then the book starts talking about recursive functions. Suffice to say once I hit that section I went back to codeacademy finished the course (which never brought them up and I'm not sure if that's good or bad) now I'm back in Eloquent Javascript...it get's really hard really fast.

recursive function is just a fancy word for a function that calls itself.

Re: Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?

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Post by narak »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #54

I liked Zakas' books, the older one http://a.co/4e5JLrI for the breadth and history and the concise update: http://a.co/2U97acq

Would also recommend "Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript" by him: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Object-Oriented-JavaScript...

Re: Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?

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Post by paultopia »

FWIW, I started with Eloquent Javascript and moved on to You Don't Know JS. For me (self-taught type but with some experience, mostly use Python and Clojure) that seemed to do the trick, I'm working on a small Vue.js learning-type project right now and it isn't horribly blowing up, I feel lots more comfortable than I used to with JS, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?

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Post by dontJudge »

old_chap wrote: post #64
cdumler wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My go to for people new to JS.

I'm learning Javascript. I can safely say im comfortable with most fundemental programming concepts...then the book starts talking about recursive functions. Suffice to say once I hit that section I went back to codeacademy finished the course (which never brought them up and I'm not sure if that's good or bad) now I'm back in Eloquent Javascript...it get's really hard really fast.

Lot's of books throw recursion at beginners and expect them to understand it as intuitively they would a loop. But it's not intuitive at all (at least it wasn't for me).

I like the book "The Little Schemer" to learn recursion. Yes, a whole book to learn something other books briefly throw at you. You will not regret the read.

Re: Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?

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Post by mikelyons »

sharmi wrote: post #2

You don't know JS is a good book to start with and explains ES6 too. It is available for free on github so you can evaluate before buying. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

This series of books took me to the next level in my career as a developer
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