Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
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Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
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Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#2Cool website.
Some thoughts / constructive criticism: Why would I be incentivized to get the full ES7 book when there are already quality materials out there for me for free (i.e. ponyfoo's articles are amazing).
In contrast, I was very attracted to the article on building a list - it's pretty unique and shines a light on interesting CS & JS concepts.
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#3Cool website. Some thoughts / constructive criticism: Why would I be incentivized to get the full ES7 book when there are already quality materials out there for me for free (i.e. ponyfoo's articles are amazing). In contrast, I was very attracted to the article on building a list - it's pretty unique and shines a light on interesting CS & JS concepts.
Thanks for the feedback! You are definitely right that there is a ton of material on this subject already out there. I intentionally chose a tiny subject I know a lot about that has mass appeal, so I could test the waters a bit. I have written more niche content on Crystal and also a few CS fundamentals focused articles. More niche content is planned as well as more mass appeal content until I get a feel for what the right focuses are.
My theory is that building an audience for a site like this is a mix of niche content and mass appeal content. I honestly have no idea what that mix is yet and what type of content to focus on, still figuring that out. Your feedback is massively appreciated! It will without a doubt influence the direction I take the site in!
As far as the value of this book over other resources, I would say the main separating factor is my writing style. If you like non-serious writing that leans much more towards helping you grok concepts than technical correctness then you will enjoy it. There is no stuff like "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" to be found within my writing. Also there are lots of references :)
Thanks again for the feedback!
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#4Cool website. Some thoughts / constructive criticism: Why would I be incentivized to get the full ES7 book when there are already quality materials out there for me for free (i.e. ponyfoo's articles are amazing). In contrast, I was very attracted to the article on building a list - it's pretty unique and shines a light on interesting CS & JS concepts.
Thanks for the feedback! You are definitely right that there is a ton of material on this subject already out there. I intentionally chose a tiny subject I know a lot about that has mass appeal, so I could test the waters a bit. I have written more niche content on Crystal and also a few CS fundamentals focused articles. More niche content is planned as well as more mass appeal content until I get a feel for what the…
Looks nice!
Spotted a couple of grammar errors on the front page, though:
Day three: * Learn why ES6 modules are static and why its awesome
Day five: * Learn how to generators can be used to manage promises
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#5Looks nice - and the font! ;)
On a more serious note, I know ruby, but I really want to learn JS - is this a good place to start? Or, is there a better place to start, and then come back here?
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#6Looks nice - and the font! ;) On a more serious note, I know ruby, but I really want to learn JS - is this a good place to start? Or, is there a better place to start, and then come back here?
It is more targeted towards people that know some JS but want to learn ES6 or are struggling with parts of ES6. It is a quick mini-book focused on ES6 with some refresher of more advanced-ish JS concepts like hoisting and closures. It says 7 days, but you could easily digest the content in a weekend :)
I'd recommend you check out other resources first then comeback. I highly recommend the You Don't Know JS books https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback! You are definitely right that there is a ton of material on this subject already out there. I intentionally chose a tiny subject I know a lot about that has mass appeal, so I could test the waters a bit. I have written more niche content on Crystal and also a few CS fundamentals focused articles. More niche content is planned as well as more mass appeal content until I get a feel for what the…
Looks nice! Spotted a couple of grammar errors on the front page, though: Day three: * Learn why ES6 modules are static and why its awesome Day five: * Learn how to generators can be used to manage promises
Oops. Thanks for noticing and reporting! Will push fixes soonish!
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#8Looks nice - and the font! ;) On a more serious note, I know ruby, but I really want to learn JS - is this a good place to start? Or, is there a better place to start, and then come back here?
My favorite JS book at the moment is http://eloquentjavascript.net/
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#9On day 8 you will learn how to use asynchronous code to escape a try/catch block.
On day 9 you will learn how to leak memory with closures.
On day 10 you will learn how to do unsafe numeric operations with IEEE 754 floating point precision numbers.
On day 11 you will learn that the pseudorandom generator in JS is VM specific and may not be secure.
On day 12 you will learn to leak memory by binding functions.
On day 13 you will learn to add timeouts to asynchronous operations so they don't last forever.
On day 14 you will learn what the floating point epsilon is and how number comparisons are unreliable.
Re: Learn ES6 and ES7 in 7 Days
#10Looks nice - and the font! ;) On a more serious note, I know ruby, but I really want to learn JS - is this a good place to start? Or, is there a better place to start, and then come back here?
I dont like vanilla JS. I appreciate and am highly productive in ES6.
For new-to-javascripties, I generally recommend skipping over vanilla js and going straight to ES6.
You can easily run ES6 code in nodejs - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36417585/how-to-execute-e...
(and obviously in everything else like reactjs, etc)