Learn JavaScript With Books, Videos And Meeting Rooms

23 July, 2008 | JavaScript

Learning JavaScript can be tricky, especially as there are so many things to get wrong in the language if you don’t know what you are doing. It is almost impossible to debug code if you don’t have a very clear understanding of what is going on. The three solutions to this are to read books, watch some videos and to go on a course.

Tuition

If you live in the UK then you can find many JavaScript training courses available, which are held at high quality meeting rooms. Attending a course can help you to get started in the subject and will equip you with the tools you need to continue learning at your own rate. I would really recommend taking this approach with a large and generally abused subject like JavaScript. There are so many ways to go wrong when you set out learning the language, especially because it doesn’t "act" like a lot of other languages. Superficially it might be similar, but if you are intent on writing any serious applications then you need to understand the object model of JavaScript, which many books just miss out.

Books

There are a lot of books available on JavaScript, the majority of which will take a very "look at this, isn’t it pretty" approach to the language. This is unfortunate as this can only lead to people misusing the language to do stupid things in a browser, which is what has happened. However, there are some really good books out there, here are a few that I have read myself and have thought to be very good.

Videos

There are numerous videos available on the Internet, but finding the good ones is also a challenge. Here are some very good videos, most are by Douglas Crockford, but I have managed to find some others.

Here is the first from Douglas Crockford to get you started.

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