Besides learning about Python ASYNCIO, For the last few weeks, I have been learning JavaScript for web development. My methodology is to consume the knowledge from multiple resources (book, blogs and MOOCs).
Why multiple resources that explain the same concepts?
If you use different resources, you will be exposed to the concept in different context. This is especially useful for beginners to not stuck in one context. You need to understand the concept in different situation.
Also, feel free to modify the tutorial steps. Add in anything that is interesting. Apply previously learned knowledge to the tutorial. Combine two different concepts. In short, be active in experimenting.
For this post, I want to share some resources that are useful in my journey of learning JavaScript.
The Modern JavaScript Bootcamp
If you are starting to learn JavaScript from the basics, please use this course. I find that there is a balanced mix of explanation and practical usage of concepts.
One particular thing that is useful is the challenges that the course instructor gave to the students. After the instructor demonstrated on a practical concept, you are expected to complete the variant of the demo.
Eloquent JavaScript
Disclaimer: I cannot give a complete review since I completed only the earlier chapters (1-7). In future, I will read the remaining chapters again.
The book introduces foundational programming knowledge. If you are new to programming, you can consider reading chapter 1 – 7 to learn the fundamentals. The chapter on different JavaScript built-in functions for Arrays (e.g. forEach(..), filter(...) and map(...)) was useful later on when I studied with the other MOOCs.
I also advise beginners to try the few challenges that are available at the end of each chapters. I have consolidated my understanding by doing these challenges. Some of the challenges may be difficult. So you should feel free to refer to the code (this is not school).
The Complete React Developer Course
Before you take this React course, I suggest that you take Modern JavaScript Bootcamp. At the same time, you should create a few demo web applications. If you want to learn Web Development, then React is one of the JS framework that you need to learn. Why? Because of the wide adoption. One cool thing that I like about React is the speed of rendering and JSX (JavaScript XML).
Food for Thought: React seems like a powerful framework that allows the application to process and compute data for the client side. Does this mean that more application will start perform business logic workflows in the client side and forgets about backend validation?