William Park wrote:
I'm going through https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript now, and I find that topic by topic discussion is not very useful for a newbie like me, even with programmer background. I click a link and another, and pretty soon I get lost in cyclic sphegatti. As a newbie, I don't know what's important and what order I should learn.
Do you know a better "tutorial" site for Javascript? Maybe a book?
I've got the O'Reilly book _Dynamic HTML_ by Danny Goodman. It covers the whole area of client-side scripting, and has a fat reference chapter describing JavaScript element-by element. With access to that chapter you could probably make sense of scripts found in the wild via right-click-inspect. Seems like there was a group of languages created in the '80s and '90s with common features: Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript all with very similar function libraries and with a more-or-less C-like syntax. In light of that, JavaScript is not too shocking.