You know how to use a phone. Close your eyes and imagine holding your phone in your hand. Even if your imagination is as poor as mine, you know how to make a call. Or how to send a text. Or how to open the browser.
What it will give you is confidence. Confidence that you know what the code is doing. That you can follow along a piece of code and get the correct result. That you can not only build, but think in JavaScript.
You don’t know JavaScript
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Get Started prepares you for the journey ahead, first surveying the language then detailing how the rest of the You Don't Know JS Yet book series guides you to knowing JS more deeply.
Get Started, the first book in the new edition series, is where to start your journey of knowing JS more deeply. This book surveys the language in multiple layers of detail, laying out a roadmap with the other books as guides for your learning and growth. For any developer hoping to move from early JS experience to a deeper level, here is your first step to get started.
I started a new job 3 months ago. During the interview process, I was told I could pick whatever language I want to use to do the project. A couple of weeks ago we started the project, and I was told I must use Node.js, typescript,event driven programming, and express, none of which are things I know.
I have never extensively worked in any flavor of javascript before, but I have many years (>5) of python/java experience as well as a little flask experience. Since I have a variety of programming experience, I assumed I could just learn as I go.
We have a full agile team of 11 people which includes 2 software engineers (including myself) and a tech lead. My boss (who I interviewed with and knows what I know/don't know) is not on the agile team.
Only the other software engineer knows that I don't know the underlying technologies (the tech lead does not know what I know or don't know). I did not intentionally omit this to anyone - I genuinely thought up until today that I could learn the tech very quickly and it wouldn't matter (I have learned other techs quickly before - c# was very easy for me since I knew java).
On the one hand, the simplest approach is: "just learn javascript, typescript, express, and event driven programming". Optimistically, this would take at least a few months. The project is due 3 months from now though. Really dunno how realistic this approach is.
A third approach is: tell the tech lead that I don't know the underlying technologies. Best case scenario is that he adjusts his expectations downward and gives me more leeway to contribute what I can as I learn, or I could get placed onto another team/project. Worst case scenario - I get kicked off the team or even fired.
I am aware I can't "hide", since anyone who looks at the code repository (such as the tech lead) could see that I am not really contributing. And it will be obvious based on what I say I accomplished or did not accomplish during daily scrums and other catch ups. On the other hand, it seems counter productive to "loudly announce to everyone that I don't know any of this stuff".
You forgot the fourth approach which is all 3. First you talk to your tech lead and tell them about your deficiencies. You make them understand you know you aren't ideal on the project and you're ready to do whatever you need to do to contribute and make the project a success. Second, you talk to the other dev and go straight for the honesty. Accept the "crap" parts of the project wherever you can, and free them up to do max contribution. Get both of their opinions and advice during code review and always be receptive to feedback on it. Third, get cracking and start learning. JavaScript is (IMO) a pretty simple language and with a programming background you should be able to accomplish most tasks once you have the basics down.
The latest is the seventh edition. Each new version comes with more features and an updated version of the previous edition. The sixth edition of this book included HTML5, ECMAScript concepts, etc. Suppose you are interested in web application development and want to know about JavaScript beyond basics. In that case, you can go for it.
The hardest step is always that first effort to remove the tutorial training wheels. Not sure where to start? Try a few of the projects listed below to apply your JavaScript knowledge to a new project!
Even if your experience and knowledge in JavaScript are great and you think that you know everything about the language, every time you read these books again you will understand something much better or if you are reading them for the first time you will learn something new about the JavaScript programming language for sure.
The second book "Scope and Closures" as the name it is focused on in-depth inside scope and closures, which are the two core concepts you need to know to become a better JavaScript programmer. You will see how they work and why they are the trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers are trying to avoid.
Obviously, the more JavaScript you know, the easier it will be to learn Nodejs. However, according to the official docs, these are the main concepts you should understand if you want to get started with Nodejs.
You might be wondering why it is important to know these topics. Well, this is because the Node environment has its own built-in functions and operations. If you jump in without a foundation in JavaScript, it will be hard to distinguish what code is specific to Node and specific to JavaScript. It is the same reason you should learn JavaScript before React. Learning the two at the same time can further confuse you and prove to be more difficult.
In order to learn Node js, it is very important that you have some JavaScript knowledge under your belt. By understanding the concepts outlined above, you should have a good grasp on JavaScript and enough knowledge to begin your journey with Node js. Failing to learn JavaScript before Node can lead to confusion between what is part of the Node runtime environment and what is pure JavaScript. By learning JavaScript first, you eliminate this issue and the learning process becomes much easier.
So that is pretty much it! Everything you need to know before learning Node js. If you are a new developer just getting started in web development, check out my list of free resources here. If you want to check out some other great courses, you can find them here.
This is a free book on github, but you can purchase print copies. I've see one of Kyle Simpsons online training courses for JavaScript. Even if you think you know JavaScript, he'll show you something you don't know. This is very in depth stuff and highly recommended.
The Mozilla Developer Network. This is like having the JavaScript specs laid out for you in a nice informative fashion. This is a must-have reference when doing JavaScript development, all the samples are easy to understand and it's easy to know which features are experimental.
Ok, this one is like a teachers pet. Do I think everyone should be doing functional JavaScript? Maybe("Yes"). I'm kidding. But I do think you could learn a lot about JavaScript development by learning how to use it in some functional programming manner. You don't need to know Monads, but you already know Functors. (Arrays are Functors, which are containers that can be mapped with functions to get their values). I'm not a pro, but an avid admirer and user.
Compare learning a11y to learning auto mechanics. If you learn exactly what size socket wrench you need to do X specific job on a Honda Accord, you know exactly that: how to do that job on a Honda Accord. However, if you learn how combustion engines work in combination with electronics, you understand what needs to happen to accommodate a certain issue. Now you can fix a Jeep, a Ford, a Toyota or a Lamborghini. You know what causes the issue, and thus how to address it. Just as this imaginary mechanic is capable of much more than specifics, a developer versed in a11y as a whole will be able to address issues in any language or format.
However, if that same developer sought to learn a11y holistically, they might start with the WCAG quickref (linked below). That way, they'd learn top-down all of the reasonable accommodations we can provide as developers. They'd learn needs and real-life applications - and save the code snippets for later. With that knowledge, we can provide a11y consideration in any language, any framework, for any platform with a quick visit to Stack Overflow. This gives a much wider and more complete understanding, instead of a cheat sheet with specific answers to specific questions.
JavaScript is one of the most used (opens new window) languages (opens new window) in the world, with a thriving community and extensive package ecosystem (opens new window). If you work on websites and know JavaScript well, Pipedream makes you a full stack engineer. If you've never used JavaScript, see the resources below.
Continuing on, we find a single period (we must escape it with "\" due to the fact that, in regular expressions, it matches any character (sometimes excluding a line break). The last part is to find the ".com." We know that the majority, if not all, domains will have a suffix range of two - four characters (com, edu, net, name, etc.). If we're aware of that specific range, we can forego using a more generic symbol like * or +, and instead wrap the two numbers within curly braces, representing the minimum and maximum, respectively.
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