[LRUG] [Off Topic] Learning Javascript

Matthew Rudy Jacobs matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 02:52:39 PDT 2008


Don't know if that true.

If you see Prototype doing something cool...
then you wonder how it does it.

Then you see how it does it...
and you have contextual understanding of the underlying JS.

2008/6/30 Tom Armitage <tom.armitage at gmail.com>:

> 2008/6/30 Matthew Rudy Jacobs <matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com>:
> > Does the Pragmatic Prototype book count?
> > http://pragprog.com/titles/cppsu/prototype-and-script-aculo-us
>
> Really, I wouldn't recommend looking at any libraries, and that
> definitely definitely includes Prototype, if you're interested in
> actually learning Javascript properly. The libraries are much easier
> when you have a handle on how they work. Otherwise, you get up to your
> neck in dark magic way too fast...
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