Hey guys. Quite regularly, I'll get e-mails and tweets from readers inquiring what the best resources to use for learning jQuery further are. My response to these questions is usually the same, however it occurred to me that rather than just pointing readers to just one or two links, it would be significantly more helpful if I showed them how to evaluate for themselves whether a learning resource is worth spending their time on.
This greatly widens up the net of the resources you might consider using and doesn't limit you to a small finite set of sites which may not cover everything you would consider useful to know. There's a lot of great educational content on jQuery out there and to help evaluate the good from the bad, I've put together what (in my opinion) are the important factors to consider when selecting your learning material in a slide deck below.
I should note that these are the factors I personally use when choosing resources. I'm not in any way an expert on evaluating the merits of educational jQuery content, but I'm putting this on the blog in case it helps others. If you find it useful, feel free to pass it along!.
I'm on the Chrome team at Google, working on tools to help improve developer productivity and satisfaction.
Great timing. I'm looking to author a lot of education content / code in the upcoming months on HTML / CSS / JS. This has given me some good "common sense" reminders (and validated many of my design choices). In particular keeping my content open source and community driven… the last thing this world needs is another w3schools
Cheers ^_^
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This issue with stale or incorrect learning material is definitely not unique to jquery material on the web. It is a problem with the web in general. There's no quality control being done by most sites because they are developed and maintained by individuals. Figuring out which sources are safe and which are problematic s up the the individual.
Even sites like jquery.com are not immune to the problem. For instance I was recently looking for help with transforms. There are 2 different transform plug-ins listed yet neither one has a complete solution for IE browsers even though both of them claim to have the problem licked. While I praise the plug-in authors for sharing their hard work, it is quite frustrating to not be able to provide the functionality the plug-in provide to all my site visitors.
What a brilliant article.
At this moment, process of web design and development is growing at a faster pace. Libraries and Frameworks are updating fast, and getting better and slicker day by day.
Many renowned author do try to cope up with development of a particular library or two, but do fail sometimes to update previous articles.
A good website is just not about the design and layout, rather it is also about the content that is updated there.Website design comprises of the final visual interface design and the layout of the web pages
jquery rocks!… first of all
for learn jquery the first choise is the google query "begin with jquery"
is too simple!
Wow. Thank you for this tutorial. I really appreciate the effort. Solid job.
Valid for evaluating Learning Material for just about any topic which evolves at a reasonable pace over time. Good stuff!
I made a complete reference manual for jQuery and jQuery UI:
http://www.heronote.com/files/jQuery.htm
hi,everyone ,I am a chinese.I wonder whether jQeury is a good language,beacuse i have not use jQeury yet.
thanks for the article, very nice indeed
thanks for this topic.i am learning Jquery..thanks for providing these slides