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A review by dreamofbookspines
A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half by Mark Myers
4.0
Full disclosure: I've been using CodeCademy for a while to learn Javascript when I switched over to this book. So I'm not a total neophyte, but I definitely don't know everything about Javascript. (I also read the last quarter-ish of the book after taking a 6 month coding bootcamp immersive course, so it was all much more familiar.)
Written in small portions, the chapters are manageable in under half an hour for the most part. This means that people could conceivably do a chapter a day and finish the book in about three months. Pretty short when you consider this is teaching you a new language. I will say that the chapter stop being manageable in under half an hour around chapter 50. That's when it got more complicated, at least for me. That said, I think it's still a manageable set of tasks that each chapter sets forth.
The book is particularly invaluable given the corresponding online exercises that the author has devised and made available. It's not quite the gameified approach that CodeCademy takes, but it's close. There's some timed exercises along with some regular ones. I think the way that the exercises are laid out makes sense: he starts you off by asking simple questions, then progresses to slightly more complicated ones while making it so that if you type the correct beginning character, the answer autocompletes. After that, he moves on to even more complicated and sets you a time limit. It's interactive without being overly stressful and the time limits are very reasonable for those with decent to fast typing skills.
Written in small portions, the chapters are manageable in under half an hour for the most part. This means that people could conceivably do a chapter a day and finish the book in about three months. Pretty short when you consider this is teaching you a new language. I will say that the chapter stop being manageable in under half an hour around chapter 50. That's when it got more complicated, at least for me. That said, I think it's still a manageable set of tasks that each chapter sets forth.
The book is particularly invaluable given the corresponding online exercises that the author has devised and made available. It's not quite the gameified approach that CodeCademy takes, but it's close. There's some timed exercises along with some regular ones. I think the way that the exercises are laid out makes sense: he starts you off by asking simple questions, then progresses to slightly more complicated ones while making it so that if you type the correct beginning character, the answer autocompletes. After that, he moves on to even more complicated and sets you a time limit. It's interactive without being overly stressful and the time limits are very reasonable for those with decent to fast typing skills.