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Ask HN: Good Javascript learning exercise suggestions

5 points by sirrocco ↗ HN
Can you offer some suggestions of good Javascript exercises ? Both for beginner and advanced ?

I was thinking of a web based chat for advanced (this sounded a bit tricky that's why I picked it), and for something simple I had in mind tricks and animations for a form using jquery.

For books I had in mind :

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596101996/wrrrldwideweb

Thanks.

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spooneybarger
The Good Parts is the best Javascript book I've ever read. You can't go wrong with getting it. I had people who worked for me ( and who came from a very-algol based language background) read it; in the words of one: 'an earth shattering eye opener'.
brandonkm
For books I recommend the Javascript Cookbook ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596806132/ ). It was released a few days ago and from the parts I've read so far, covers a lot of use cases for the language as well as lots of HTML 5 + ECMAscript 5 bits.

If you're interested in building something with a client-side js framework, you should check out this tutorial http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb . It covers how to build a simple blog app with node.js and express.

sirrocco
A node.js tutorial was also something that I was looking for, so thanks for that.

If you have any more ideas both for beginners and advanced, it would be great.

mickeyben
Be aware this node.js tutorial is working with the v0.14 of the express web framework but the 1.0 is in beta 2 right now with a lot of api changes.