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Open source list of paid & free resources to learn vanilla JavaScript
https://snipcart.com/blog/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-js-frameworks
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add Speaking JavaScript (ES5 version) #3

Closed wellingguzman closed 6 years ago

wellingguzman commented 6 years ago

I would like to recommend Speaking JavaScript by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, It's a good book and helped me a lot.

thefln commented 6 years ago

@WellingGuzman Thanks for the suggestion! It seems the book hasn't been updated since 2014. Do you believe it still holds value for newcomers today, considering all the new versions of EcmaScript?

wellingguzman commented 6 years ago

It's an old book, It doesn't cover anything beyond ES5, but it covers all the fundamentals of JS until ES5, which I believe are good topics to any one who want to really want to have a glance to the good and bad parts of JS.

I wanted to recommend it even though it's an old book, it has good reference for JavaScript, and that's why I explicit mark it as "ES5 version".

In bottom line, starting with this book the path for a newcomer might be longer and confusing (No class, no arrow function, promises, etc.) but it gives you a good foundation.

thefln commented 6 years ago

In bottom line, starting with this book the path for a newcomer might be longer and confusing (No class, no arrow function, promises, etc.) but it gives you a good foundation.

Gotcha. Let's leave it out then, in the spirit of keeping things as fresh as possible.

wellingguzman commented 6 years ago

Absolutely! Makes sense.