Hi, I find that either/or choices tend to be false choices. Not always, but frequently enough that I've taught myself to stop and ask whether it's really either/or. (Especially since my brain tends to default that way -- either/or, black/white, right/wrong -- and so I have to keep reminding myself that the world is more interesting than that...)
Perhaps a both/and solution? Teach the fundamentals of JavaScript and DOM manipulation, then as an adjunct, do a section on how you can use libraries to smooth out browser differences and get useful utility functions, and that's when you introduce jQuery, Prototype, possibly a couple of the others as well. There are a *lot* of libraries out there besides jQuery and Prototype: * YUI: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ * Closure: http://code.google.com/closure/library * Dojo: http://dojotoolkit.org/ * Any of several others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_libraries You can even point out how they solve the same problems differently (and how they solve other problems much the same way). You could discuss the technical pros and cons of each, and talk about how technical pros and cons do not always dictate project decisions like we engineers tend to think they should -- e.g., there are other factors to consider, like stability, pace of development, style of development, etc. That would (to my mind) more thoroughly prepare the students for going out in the world and doing useful work, even if they end up using a library that you hadn't shown them at all. >From a crass commercial standpoint, I have to agree with Yuval that out in the marketplace, in today's world, right this minute, your students will get more utility out of being familiar with jQuery than being familiar with Prototype. *IF* you had to teach just one library, but again, teaching one library isn't what I'd recommend anyway. FWIW, -- T.J. Crowder Independent Software Engineer tj / crowder software / com www / crowder software / com On Mar 19, 8:53 am, yuval dagan <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Although I used and will use prototype, > It looks (to me) currently like JQuery is much more popular than prototype > > I say stick to JQuery but let them know about other frameworks. > > But thats only my opinion > > Yuval > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Ali.MD <alimihando...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi every1 > > I'm teacher of NIIT university > > and teach web technology in our web department > > I want to change and update some our courses > > For example in section of javascript framework > > We usually recommend jquery because its easy to learn. > > But i thing Prototype & script.aculo.us are better in core and api > > What exactly is the difference between these two in future > > In support, popularity, features, developers ... > > Do you recommend me to switch our web team developers to this ? > > and/or students to learn this framework ? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
