I just got home from teaching JavaScript to a room full of people who've never written a line of code in their life. This book is missing something critical that most intros to JavaScript overlook: How does the student set up the plumbing and run their code? It's amazing how much of a hump this is for many trying to get started. It also amazes me how oblivious most of us programmers are to it. "Just open Chrome Dev T…
Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shouldn't the answer be obvious? Every Python tutorial: type 'python' and enter commands into the REPL. Every Ruby tutorial: type 'ruby' and enter commands into the REPL. Every Exlixir tutorial: type 'iex' and enter commands into the REPL. Every Perl tutorial: type 'perl' and enter commands into the REPL. So for JavaScript: type 'node' and enter commands into the REPL.
Shouldn't the next question be obvious? - "What is a REPL?"
Also, doing things in a REPL usually pretty different.
Re: Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch
#113This is really good! And I like the dig at 9gag :)