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Re: [sydjs] jQuery book recomendations

From:

Tim Clipsham

Date:

2012-02-21 @ 22:38

An alternative:

I watched the Pluralsight course on jQuery:

http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?courseName=jquery-fundamentals

It's not for everyone but I found it a short and good intro to jQuery.
There's a chance some of it may be slightly out of date through
regarding the latest jQuery releases (particularly around the api
changes for event binding in jQuery 1.7) but I assume this would also
apply to many of the books as well.

Tim

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Aaron Powell <me@aaron-powell.com> wrote:
> jQuery novice to ninja - 
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780980576856.do (although the authors are
questionable! jk)
> jQuery in action - http://www.manning.com/bibeault2/
>
> although I'll admit to having not read either of them
>
>
> Aaron Powell
> MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member
>
> http://apowell.me | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | 
Github | BitBucket
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sydjs@librelist.com [mailto:sydjs@librelist.com] On Behalf Of Erik
de Castro Lopo
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 9:30 AM
> To: sydjs@librelist.com
> Subject: [sydjs] jQuery book recomendations
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a pretty accomplished programmer in other langauges (many languages,
including production code in C and Haskell) and have recently found myself
getting interested in web dev after ignoring it for the best part of a 
decade.
>
> I've read Crockford's "Javascript : the good bits" and now I'm looking 
to get a decent understanding of stuff like jQuery. I've seen two books
>
>  - Learning jQuery 3rd Ed
>  - JavaScript & jQuery the missing manual
>
> Does anyone have any opinion on one over the other? Is there anything better?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Erik
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Erik de Castro Lopo
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/

Throwing a second recommendation for “Novice to Ninja” out there, which 
has just received a 2nd Ed (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/jquery2/) 
update. It’s easy to read, pretty comprehensive, only concern would be 
that it moves too slowly for a pretty accomplished programmer.

--
Paul / @3Easy


On Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 9:38 AM, Tim Clipsham wrote:

> An alternative:
>  
> I watched the Pluralsight course on jQuery:
> 
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?courseName=jquery-fundamentals
>  
> It's not for everyone but I found it a short and good intro to jQuery.
> There's a chance some of it may be slightly out of date through
> regarding the latest jQuery releases (particularly around the api
> changes for event binding in jQuery 1.7) but I assume this would also
> apply to many of the books as well.
>  
> Tim
>  
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Aaron Powell <me@aaron-powell.com 
(mailto:me@aaron-powell.com)> wrote:
> > jQuery novice to ninja - 
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780980576856.do (although the authors are
questionable! jk)
> > jQuery in action - http://www.manning.com/bibeault2/
> >  
> > although I'll admit to having not read either of them
> >  
> >  
> > Aaron Powell
> > MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member
> >  
> > http://apowell.me | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell |
Github | BitBucket
> >  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sydjs@librelist.com [mailto:sydjs@librelist.com] On Behalf Of 
Erik de Castro Lopo
> > Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 9:30 AM
> > To: sydjs@librelist.com (mailto:sydjs@librelist.com)
> > Subject: [sydjs] jQuery book recomendations
> >  
> > Hi all,
> >  
> > I'm a pretty accomplished programmer in other langauges (many 
languages, including production code in C and Haskell) and have recently 
found myself getting interested in web dev after ignoring it for the best 
part of a decade.
> >  
> > I've read Crockford's "Javascript : the good bits" and now I'm looking
to get a decent understanding of stuff like jQuery. I've seen two books
> >  
> >  - Learning jQuery 3rd Ed
> >  - JavaScript & jQuery the missing manual
> >  
> > Does anyone have any opinion on one over the other? Is there anything better?
> >  
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Erik
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Erik de Castro Lopo
> > http://www.mega-nerd.com/
> >  
>  
>  
>  

Tim Clipsham wrote:

> An alternative:
> 
> I watched the Pluralsight course on jQuery:
> 
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?courseName=jquery-fundamentals

That seems to be a video, but in Firefox 9 on Linux, there seems to
be no video. Anyone else on Linux see anything?

Erik
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik de Castro Lopo
http://www.mega-nerd.com/

I think you actually have to subscribe to see them. The jQuery ones
don't appear to be free (although I believe one of the ASP.NET MVC
ones is, if you want to test it works on *nix before subscribing). I
can confirm that they worked on my Mac and Windows machine
(Silverlight...sigh), and even on my iOS devices using their app from
the app store.

I probably should have mentioned the cost, sorry about that.

Tim

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+cl@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Tim Clipsham wrote:
>
>> An alternative:
>>
>> I watched the Pluralsight course on jQuery:
>> 
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?courseName=jquery-fundamentals
>
> That seems to be a video, but in Firefox 9 on Linux, there seems to
> be no video. Anyone else on Linux see anything?
>
> Erik
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Erik de Castro Lopo
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/