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Great jquery tutorial

187 points by bzupnick 15y ago

ichilton 15y ago
It's worth noting for anyone new finding this that she is discontinuing maintainership of this and handing it over to the jQuery project. Full details here: http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/the-future-of-jquery-fundamentals-and-a-confe http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/the-future-of-jquery-fundamen...
pdelgallego 15y ago
Its a great resource, I am looking forward to see if Rebecca creates some Dojo (or even better a framework agnostic) learning materials. It's great to see someone pushing us beyond the jQuery omnipresence. Her blog [1] is full of good screencast and the last entry about Modern JS is very valuable for the community [1] http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/ http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/
- bruce511 15y ago
  There are of course lots and lots of JavaScript learning materials both in print and on the web. I assume that's what you mean by "framework agnostic". And of course the better you know JavaScript the better you'll be able to use jQuery, or any of the other frameworks. That said, framework specific tutorials are likely to be far more useful to the casual or beginner developer. In the "real world", while you can do everything without a client-side framework, it's a lot of effort (and ultimately means you're creating a new framework.) All of the browser incompatibilities hidden away by frameworks like jQuery or Dojo would have to be re-invented. You can write windows programs in assembler, but frankly why would you? In that light tutorials based on specific frameworks, while appealing to fewer people, is ultimately more useful to the people who do work through it. jQuery (and DoJo et al) are popular precisely because it lets you build better, more reliable, and more cross-browser-compatible web sites. Rebecca is obviously a talented developer, with a strong bent towards sharing what she has learnt so kudo's to her - may she do much more, regardless of the framework she's currently using.
marckremers 15y ago
Just what I've been looking for, a no fuss explanation of the basics and beyond. cheers.
wh-uws 15y ago
I like that it starts with a general javascript overview first. This a great js beginner's guide.
joakin 15y ago
Really nice resource. A neat guide that I'm going to handle to my java partners.
nateberkopec 15y ago
Awesome. With JQuery becoming the default in Rails 3.1, I'm definitely going to have to be reading this.
donniefitz2 15y ago
It would be nice to read this on my Kindle.
swah 15y ago
After using Mootools for a while, I was once more comparing it to Jquery, and was pretty lost trying to find out how to do date parsing and number formatting with the latter. A search returns loads of plugins with no documentation, you don't know which one satisfies your requirements and is mantained. In Mootools, its intuitive to find those at http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Date http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Date and http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Number.Format http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Number.Format, and you know they are good to use because they are official. What is the usual approach Jquery developers take when they need something like this?
- brown9-2 15y ago
  I don't think the core of jQuery is really intended to provide anything in this area at all. I think the usual approach would be to use whatever you'd be using without jQuery.
kmfrk 15y ago
Rebecca also teaches the jQuery Fundamentals course on CodeLesson: http://codelesson.com/courses/view/web-development-with-jquery http://codelesson.com/courses/view/web-development-with-jque.... I don't have that much experience with CodeLesson, though, so it would probably be best to hear what others have taken away from using the service.

187 points by bzupnick 15y ago

It's worth noting for anyone new finding this that she is discontinuing maintainership of this and handing it over to the jQuery project. Full details here: http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/the-future-of-jquery-fundamentals-and-a-confe http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/the-future-of-jquery-fundamen...

pdelgallego 15y ago

Its a great resource, I am looking forward to see if Rebecca creates some Dojo (or even better a framework agnostic) learning materials. It's great to see someone pushing us beyond the jQuery omnipresence. Her blog [1] is full of good screencast and the last entry about Modern JS is very valuable for the community [1] http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/ http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/

bruce511 15y ago
There are of course lots and lots of JavaScript learning materials both in print and on the web. I assume that's what you mean by "framework agnostic". And of course the better you know JavaScript the better you'll be able to use jQuery, or any of the other frameworks. That said, framework specific tutorials are likely to be far more useful to the casual or beginner developer. In the "real world", while you can do everything without a client-side framework, it's a lot of effort (and ultimately means you're creating a new framework.) All of the browser incompatibilities hidden away by frameworks like jQuery or Dojo would have to be re-invented. You can write windows programs in assembler, but frankly why would you? In that light tutorials based on specific frameworks, while appealing to fewer people, is ultimately more useful to the people who do work through it. jQuery (and DoJo et al) are popular precisely because it lets you build better, more reliable, and more cross-browser-compatible web sites. Rebecca is obviously a talented developer, with a strong bent towards sharing what she has learnt so kudo's to her - may she do much more, regardless of the framework she's currently using.

marckremers 15y ago

Just what I've been looking for, a no fuss explanation of the basics and beyond. cheers.

wh-uws 15y ago

I like that it starts with a general javascript overview first. This a great js beginner's guide.

joakin 15y ago

Really nice resource. A neat guide that I'm going to handle to my java partners.

nateberkopec 15y ago

Awesome. With JQuery becoming the default in Rails 3.1, I'm definitely going to have to be reading this.

donniefitz2 15y ago

It would be nice to read this on my Kindle.

swah 15y ago

After using Mootools for a while, I was once more comparing it to Jquery, and was pretty lost trying to find out how to do date parsing and number formatting with the latter. A search returns loads of plugins with no documentation, you don't know which one satisfies your requirements and is mantained. In Mootools, its intuitive to find those at http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Date http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Date and http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Number.Format http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Number.Format, and you know they are good to use because they are official. What is the usual approach Jquery developers take when they need something like this?

brown9-2 15y ago
I don't think the core of jQuery is really intended to provide anything in this area at all. I think the usual approach would be to use whatever you'd be using without jQuery.

kmfrk 15y ago

Rebecca also teaches the jQuery Fundamentals course on CodeLesson: http://codelesson.com/courses/view/web-development-with-jquery http://codelesson.com/courses/view/web-development-with-jque.... I don't have that much experience with CodeLesson, though, so it would probably be best to hear what others have taken away from using the service.