I want to learn javascript. I have found some websites teaching javascript, but is there any video tutorial to learn javascript? Where can I download javascript books for free?
w3schools is outdated and will lead you to learn bad practices. A thing once learnt is hard to unlearn. You can try this : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide
OP, I recommend that you begin learning Javascript at www.w3school.com and a few other online tutorials I won't say that it is outdated at all !! The fact is that it's a great starting point for beginners and from there on you can learn to do things in a more advanced way. What you'll learn there is not a habit that will need to be dropped in the future but it's like the basic way of doing things to strengthen your foundation for learning the more advanced stuff. But you did say that you're looking for video tutorials or a book you can download. This dude's site has the best video tutorials and I learned C++ programming from his tutorials like 4 years ago Here's the link to the Javascript category: http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=10 The Javascript books I have is stuff that you'd find all over the internet so it isn't really that helpful. When you learn the basic to the advanced, try familiarizing yourself with some AJAX libraries such as jQuery.
Wow, could someone be that butthurt that they base their whole site off of another site's "faults"..... Damn, that's some serious issues, especially when those "faults" were meant to be a starting foundation and for grasping concepts sake..... Double fail SMH By the way W3schools is most popular amongst learner and this w3 fools I have never heard of b4 today
Yes W3Schools is very popular, and thats why it leads lot of programmers to learn bad practises. I admit to your point that it great starting point for beginners, but never ever use it as a reference. The Mozilla JavaScript guide provides the relevant and up to date JavaScript Reference.
As evident in this thread, w3schools is where most programmers started in this field. I doubt they stayed at that level and I'm sure they ventured into others ways of doing things ("good practices as you put it"), but yet w3schools remained as just a foundation. If another site comes along that corrects these bad practices with more up to date content, such as Mozilla's site, that's great. However, the internet is an ever changing community so one man's product might be an improvement of another's. W3schools was in the starting era of these tutorials, so it's only common that some else comes along and makes a better one. Does that mean that we must be negative towards the pioneer? What I'm saying is, it takes a cocky fool to make that w3fools crap site and most likely he learned his programming skills from one of the sites that teaches "bad practices".
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