I'll second the recommendation for "jQuery in Action". "Bulletproof Ajax" isn't bad, either, in showing practical examples of well-written javascript.
If you're aim is to teach it - I can't stress enough that you have as much hands-on coding practice as humanly possible. I've seen instructors, with a shallow understanding of the topic, attempt to teach code & get called out on it fast. It wasn't a pretty scene. Code, hack, code some more, lather, rinse, repeat. Cheers! Pat On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Trevor Rosen <[email protected]>wrote: > Second on the jQuery recommendation -- helps get people's feet wet and show > them how to do some pretty impressive stuff pretty quickly. In my > experience, early results are the best way to foster ongoing interest when > trying to teach dev skills, as there's almost always a bit of a learning > curve and it's easy to get frustrated in the beginning. > > A course of study for web designers built around jQuery would probably > involve DOM manipulation, style changes, and stuff in the jQuery UI > library(fades, tabs, hide/reveal logic, etc). Why not start with those? > The jQuery docs are pretty great and would get you a long way on these > fronts. > > Bookwise, these have been the resources that helped me the most with JS: > > -- "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" - definitely the JS bible and main > reference. Not so great on the teaching front, but will have the, well, > definitive answer to anything you need to know about the language itself. > > -- "The Book of Javascript" - a bit outdated, but has a very good style of > line-by-line teaching that I found very useful when doing my early learning. > > -- "jQuery in Action" - this is THE book on jQuery and happens to have a > couple *excellent* appendices for simply learning what JS is all about from > a 50k-foot view. Gets pretty heavy into the internals of jQuery and some of > the fundamental concepts of computer science that Javascript is using > (closures, object orientation, scoping, etc). > > Anything from Headfirst is usually pretty good though. Dunno much about > the other books on your list. > > -- Pat Ramsey Web Design and Accessibility Specialist [email protected] Code that works… beautifully http://slash25.com (347) 542-7252 -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
