Hi Dan,

I found these two books useful:

The Node Beginner Book (Manuel Kiessling)
Hands-On Node.js (Pedro Teixeira)

-- Tito

On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Dan North wrote:

> As a relatively recent adopter of node.js and even JavaScript I find the 
> tendency to offer streamline etc. to newcomers a bit like offering a boat to 
> someone who has just joined a swimming club and is learning to swim.
> 
> - "I'm finding swimming tricky"
> - "Use a boat!"
> - "I think I want to understand swimming"
> - "Use a kayak! It's quicker. It's like it swims for you!"
> - "Nearly everyone else here is swimming. It can't be that hard. I just need 
> help with wrapping my head around it."
> - "Try these water-wings called async while you get used to the water."
> - "Oh thanks, that looks useful."
> - "Use a kayak!"
> - "Look, I'm not afraid of getting wet or anything and I can doggy-paddle but 
> it's exhausting. I want to learn good swimming technique. Can you point me to 
> some useful resources?"
> - "La la la use a boat!"
> - *sigh* (leaves)
> 
> 
> So, since I'm also likely to end up coaching this stuff because that's what I 
> do, and I'm a fan of good resources, I'm genuinely interested in the 
> following:
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good resource for an experienced programmer who is new 
> to async, callback- and event-based, single event loop programming in 
> JavaScript and node.js? And no I don't want a boat or anything else that 
> masks the "async experience". Honestly, I'll be ok.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:39:15 
> To: <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [nodejs] Re: How to avoid callback hell?
> 
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Nuno Job wrote:
> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> Nuno
> 
> 
> Gratuitous, and unnecessarily rude: -1024
> -- 
> Jorge.
> 
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