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Ask HN: So I just finished the JavaScript course on Codecademy, now what?

by 404error on 12/4/14, 11:18 PM with 7 comments

• by rudimental on 12/5/14, 11:38 PM

  What're your goals? It can help to direct you to the best place for what you're looking for out of JavaScript. I think it's useful to learn vanilla JavaScript well before learning libraries and frameworks.

  Useful books. The first is online and free (the other two are as well, somewhere): http://eloquentjavascript.net/

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

  http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp...

  Solve toy problems to solidify knowledge of methods and syntax: http://coderbyte.com/CodingArea/Challenges/

  Good material- lots of video and problems. Not free but worth it: https://www.codeschool.com/ (makers of the jQuery videos below)

  Bootstrap - popular front-end framework: http://getbootstrap.com/

  Actually build something! A To Do List, a website, a game.

  See some different frameworks do the same things: http://todomvc.com/

  jQuery: http://try.jquery.com/

  Here is a good free node tutorial: http://nodeschool.io/

  Some tracks to learn, and get connected with non-profits to make useful things: http://www.freecodecamp.com/

  Contributing to open source projects is another route.

• by zaryaf on 12/5/14, 2:32 AM

  We are creating Zyring (http://zyring.com) exactly for that purpose, so people can actually put their learnings from courses into practice by implementing hands-on projects. We will have a Frontend development track, in which JavaScript will be utilized.

• by mtmail on 12/4/14, 11:25 PM

  Since you're bored: https://github.com/bolshchikov/js-must-watch

• by hashtag on 12/5/14, 6:51 AM

  I recommend learning how to utilize what you already know first before moving on. Try building some basic stuff using plain JS