How to dive deep into javascript

Question

I am a new web developer using ASP.NET. I don't need javascript for anything else yet, since the applications I created so far were pretty simple data mining applications, and my audience did not look for bells and whistles. However, I would like to start moving away from relying so much on ASP.NET stuff (built-in check checks, ajax toolkit, etc.).

Besides learning the language syntax, what do you need to know about javascript before I can start using frameworks like jquery to create meaningful business applications with beautiful ajax widgets, etc.? Do I need to learn all about DOM and HTTP and different browsers? All this is quite complicated.

Answer 1

I spent at least a couple of hours experimenting with each of them:

• DOM and environment (window, document, location, history, cookie)
• Built-in types (numbers, Booleans, arrays, objects, regular expressions)
• Higher Order Functions
• Prototypes and Constructors
• Shutters
• Asynchronous execution (events, timeouts, xmlhttprequest)

I like the Mozilla Documentation . This is correct, detailed and accurate. Learning these things will allow you to understand most of the magic of jQuery.