Thanks for all your suggestions..... I guess the failure is mine. I would follow some of your advices and see where they lead me to.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Nick Fitzgerald <[email protected]> wrote: > Emeka, > > If you already know how to program, and understand closures, lambdas, first > class functions in general -- which you should if you are fluent in Clojure > -- then you shouldn't have any trouble whatsoever after reading JavaScript: > The Good Parts. It will give you the introduction to JS you need, not an > introduction in how to program. > > After that, I would suggest starting a new thread here with a more specific > problem you are having. Its really hard to help someone who just doesn't > "understand JavaScript". Which part(s) don't you get? > > If after all this, you decide that JS is just too hard, you can always try > mucking about with Scriptjure: https://github.com/arohner/scriptjure > > _Nick_ > > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Emeka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Garret, >> >> I have already done programming in other languages.... Clojure and other >> scripting languages(extensively). However, I have not been able to achieve >> same success with Javascript. >> I intend to carry out some webapps programming and I think I need to pick >> up enough Javascript skill in order to achieve something reasonable. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:39 PM, dhtml <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Dec 14, 9:03 am, Emeka <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hello All, >>> > >>> > This is not my first time of attempting to understand JavaScript.... I >>> have >>> > about three books but I still feel there is something lacking in me. I >>> can't >>> > even figure out simple stuff. I have played with Clojure/PHP/Python >>> none >>> > seems like JavaScript. I have not made that shift in reasoning and I >>> have >>> > not also stumbled on "simple" projects yet to use to learn. I would >>> need you >>> > help to make this move. It may be because I am far from being grounded >>> in >>> > CSS/HTML. I need a path to follow ..... projects to try to hone my >>> > skill(sorry if this question looks childish) >>> > >>> >>> You can get basic programming skills by a decent comp-sci 100-101 >>> class. From there, learing ecmascript should be a lot easier. >>> >>> Why do need to learn javascript? >>> -- >>> Garrett >>> >>> -- >>> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<jsmentors%[email protected]> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Satajanus Nig. Ltd >> >> >> * >> >> -- >> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<jsmentors%[email protected]> >> > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<jsmentors%[email protected]> > -- *Satajanus Nig. Ltd * -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
