Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant?

10 points by skfroi 12y ago ↗ HN

During the past year I've been heavily involved in building and strengthening the tech community in Puerto Rico. As a result many students and beginning devs have asked me for advice on how to really learn Javascript. My response is always "start with Javascript the Good Parts".

In the state the the JS world is right now does this still hold true? Should I recomend some other book in addition to JtGP?

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tgriesser 12y ago ↗

"The Good Parts" is still a good one, but my recommendation these days now goes to Effective Javascript:

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software...

Outside of books, http://superherojs.com is another good resource to recommend.

skfroi 12y ago ↗

Thanks!

http://superherojs.com look really good. I'll definitely check it out.

_random_ 12y ago ↗

I would recommend pointing them to this resource as well (19 pages and counting): http://wtfjs.com

peterashford 12y ago ↗

It strikes me as a poor apology for the crap status of JS with a sprinkle of Douglas's debatable opinion rather than a useful primer in modern JS.

bonsai 12y ago ↗

I can highly recommend books written by Nicholas Zakas.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nic...

There is one shorter book that he wrote recently: https://leanpub.com/oopinjavascript

manishsharan 12y ago ↗

You may also want to check out Eloquent Javascript . http://eloquentjavascript.net/ . This is my goto book for Javascript

kb19 12y ago ↗

Javascript the Good Parts is for folks who already know Javascript. The concepts are more advanced than most beginners would encounter (currying, memoization etc).

petercooper 12y ago ↗

Speaking JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer http://speakingjs.com/ is quite well suited for people coming from other languages rather than newbies to programming.