Re: JavaScript/jQuery Question

Mike

W3Schools should be fine for beginning JavaScript - I don't know that W3Schools has a JQuery track. You probably want both JavaScript and CSS, since JQuery uses CSS-type locators, for lack of a better word. In other words, it uses style-sheet ways of identifying things like input text boxes and items of a certain class, etc.

You might look up books at www.sitepoint.com - you may have seen Jon Paris and Paul Tuohy endorse them, too.

HTH
Vern

On 7/6/2010 7:04 PM, Mike wrote:

I asked this on Twitter already, but want some more opinions.

Is W3Schools the best location to get a firm grasp of the basics of
JavaScript/jQuery? Should I learn the basics of JavaScript first? (
http://twitter.com/BizDevTalk/status/17900783527)

What OS X IDE do you like for JavaScript/jQuery/HTML editing? Free is better
for me.(http://twitter.com/BizDevTalk/status/17904366474)

I am ashamed to admit that I have done very little JavaScript development
and thus have avoided it as long as I could. Now one almost has to know
JavaScript to do any amount of web development.

Thank you guys for any direction on this. Tonight I am going to try to do a
cram-course on JavaScript 101.

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