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Learning Advanced JavaScript

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Resurfaced independently across 6 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
9
submitters
7
observed span
2008–2016
peak thread · 55 comments
302 pts
latest 20+ return · 2016-12-11
192 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

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Previous discussion for reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823347

ximeng·302-point thread·

Once again I am going to shamelessly plug my favorite course author Anthony Alicea and his JS/NodeJS/Angular1 course[1],[2],[3]. I really really liked Tony's course as it gave quite a deep look into topics, which are usually only attainable from books, while at the same time keeping it very interesting and also contain lots of best practice material and being extremely dense but easy to digest. Do let me know if you guys know any other courses of the same style…

This is really informative. Being able to edit the examples like that reminds me of the W3c site on crack :). It's silly but I think the colors and fonts have something to do with it. One thing though, on Chrome (Mac 5.0.342.9 Beta), intermittently I can't click next to get to the next slide, I get the following error: /apps/learn/jquery.chili.js:241 Uncaught ReferenceError: $el is not defined. This does not happen every time.

This has already been posted once. You can read the comments from that time here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823347

edd·52-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
733

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
121

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2008-09-23Learning Advanced JavaScriptllimllib100
2009-11-16Learning Advanced JavaScriptbensummers5215
2010-05-01Learning Advanced JavaScriptFirst breakoutjonmc1216919
2011-01-10Learning Advanced JavaScriptBest threadshawndumas30231
2011-07-21Learning Advanced JavaScriptshawndumas20
2013-01-31Learning Advanced Javascriptsongzme31
2013-06-20Learning Advanced JavaScriptshawndumas20
2016-11-17Learning Advanced JavaScriptpvsukale310
2016-12-11Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point returnkparaju19255