Ask HN: I need to learn D3. Help design my curriculum.

11 points by elliott34 13y ago ↗ HN

I need to learn d3.js for my job. Right now my programming experience is largely SQL/SAS/Scheme/Matlab, so nothing really serious.

Things I know I have to learn: HTML/SVG JS...jquery? Finally, the d3 package.

Any tips on where a complete beginner would start??

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tinsel 13y ago ↗

This is the gentlest introduction to d3 out there.

Run through the book and you will have a solid foundation to start playing around on your own for basic visualizations and charts.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do

This was also posted on HN a while back:

http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/lesson_0.html

d3 is not dependant on jquery and covers a lot of the same basic DOM manipulation. You also need to learn some super basic css to theme things.

elliott34 13y ago ↗

Thank you

caseyf7 13y ago ↗

Check out my collection of links on Kippt: https://kippt.com/caseyf7/d3

I agree Scott Murray's book is the best of the books.

elliott34 13y ago ↗

thank you

logical42 13y ago ↗

D3 has some fairly extensive API documentation on GitHub, which I personally believe is pretty great. There are also links to various resources on d3 GitHub wiki and for extra measure I personally like to study Michael Bostocks' bl.ocks.org site for example visualization a with code samples.

Nothing beats thousands of example implementations written by the creator of d3 himself.

bjpcjp 13y ago ↗

+1 on the O'Reilly book.