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Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete

#21
I read this book and the Hands-on Node.js book by Pedro Teixeira of NodeTuts. I have to say, while The Node Beginner Books is a tremendous effort that deserves congratulations, I did learn more from buying Hands-on Node.js for those interested.

Granted, Hands-on Node.js costs $6 versus Beginner's free. But in my opinion it's worth it. And a sizable portion of Hands-on Node.js is free in a sample download which I what I started with before deciding to buy it.

http://nodetuts.com/handson-nodejs-book.html

Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete

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All cool, didn't sound the wrong way at all! I think "Hands-on Node.js" by Pedro Teixeira is the perfect "next read" when you're finished with NodeBeginner. Pedro and I have bundled our eBooks at Leanbundle.com, maybe that's interesting for you: http://leanbundle.com/bundles/node

I actually bought the bundle! :) great work! PDFs and ePub looks great on my nook color.

As a cofounder of Leanpub (which is where both books are published and sold) and LeanBundle (which sells the bundle), this makes me so happy to hear!

Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete

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post #21

I read this book and the Hands-on Node.js book by Pedro Teixeira of NodeTuts. I have to say, while The Node Beginner Books is a tremendous effort that deserves congratulations, I did learn more from buying Hands-on Node.js for those interested. Granted, Hands-on Node.js costs $6 versus Beginner's free. But in my opinion it's worth it. And a sizable portion of Hands-on Node.js is free in a sample download which I what…

FYI: you can buy both those books (The Node Beginner Book and Hands-on Node.js) as a bundle for only $7.99 at http://leanbundle.com/bundles/node. Buying the bundle gets you both books on Leanpub as well, so you get free updates for as long as they're updated on Leanpub.

Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete

#25

Color me interested. I only did a super short-and-quick scan, but it looked nice for newbs trying to get up to speed. My #1 hurdle to adopting server-side Javascript is the terrible, utterly lacking documentation for anything CommonJS related. If you've got any kind of reference for that stuff, then triple bonus points!

Node doesn't implement commonjs. So it should be ignored. It's similar, but different enough that you can ignore it completely.

Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete

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Sure it's just sample code, but I spilled my coffee when I saw this: function sleep(milliSeconds) { var startTime = new Date().getTime(); while (new Date().getTime() Someone likes feeding the garbage collector.

Did you see that it's just code to demonstrate blocking, i.e., to demonstrate how to NOT do it?
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