Hello, >From my personal experience, I learned basic javascript sometime last year. Then about a month ago a friend showed me this cool thing he found called jQuery. jQuery allowed me to do everything I had learned about javascript with a simple .nameofthing such has .hide() or .animate() which made majority of my javascript obsolete.
The upside to having done javascript first was I learned the proper format for creating Functions with parameters and the syntax for if elseif else statements as well as loops ect. But a lot of that is very simple and can be picked up while learning jQuery. I suggest just jumping into jQuery, there are many examples out there and its not too tough. -CodingCyborg On Nov 16, 7:04 am, ncriptide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been a graphic designer for the past 25 years. Only "programming" > I know is HTML and a little CSS. I'm about to try my hand at learning > JavaScript and AJAX . . . . should I learn JavaScript first - and then > learn JQuery, or will I be okay just diving into JQuery? > > Just to let you know - being a designer and working off that side of > my brain - I have to tell you - even the most simple programming > concepts come hard to me. The books, "For Dummies" are over my > head. . . I tried learning PHP/MySQL . . . had to put it aside for > now. Just can't wrap my brain around it. > > With that said, I am dogged determined to learn all the above, but > figure I need JavaScript first. What do you recommend? Dive into > JQuery?
