JavaScript 101

I would like to brush-up my JavaScript. Does anyone here have any suggestions as where to start?

-Josh

PS There really ought to be a leaning JS series here.

Try jQuery instead. Usually I just use w3school.

@magicalclick: I've used jquery and it was easy to use, but without mastering the basics of js, I feel like I'm cheating. Am I crazy?

-Josh

@JoshRoss:yes

@JoshRoss: No

@JoshRoss:Maybe

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I don't think it's cheating. I think the main feature of jQuery I think is the cross-browser compatability stuff.

How many of us a decade ago had to write script hat found an object on the page, but another browsers DOM did things differently, so you had to check if the found object was null, they try another way to find the object, and 2 more ways. Now you had 4 ways of finding an objetc on the page and that should work in all browsers.

jQyery you don't have to do that anymore, just do a $("#objecthere") and it's found.

Yes it's good to know the basics, but I don't see the point in doing 2,000 lines of JavaScript "old skool" in this day and age when you can do the same thing in 200 lines of jQuery.