How to Become a JavaScript Badass

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by shawndumas • 16 years ago

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jrockway2• 16 years ago

Seriously? "Join a startup."?

Here's how to actually be good at JavaScript, or anything. Practice.

wccrawford• 16 years ago

"Practice" is his overall message. He's just listing (semi-?)practical ways to do that, for people who can't force themselves to sit at a computer and mess around with random things.

jrockway2• 16 years ago

If you can't sit around at a computer and mess with random things, you are not going to be a good programmer. Sorry.

oinopion2• 16 years ago

Because start-up require people to do all kind of stuff. You'll learn front-end and (some) back-end and will have bigger picture, which generally is "A Good Thing".

dagw• 16 years ago

I currently work at a largish consulting firm and get all those things, plus I don't have to settle for "long hours and low pay". Perhaps "work at a company that lets you work on interesting problems and learn new skills" would be far better advice. There is no reason why that has to be a start-up, nor is there a guarantee that a start-up will give you those things.

NZGumboot• 16 years ago

If you want to really understand the language, do what I did, and write a compiler (http://jurassic.codeplex.com/). You'll learn about fun oddities, like why the lexical scope introduced by the catch block is different from any other type of scope and why declaring variables inside an eval is different from declaring variables in the parent scope.

How to Become a JavaScript Badass

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