John Resig is the creator of JQuery. With his co-author Bear Bibeault, he has been working on Secrets of the Javascript Ninja for years. Anticipation is high, and we're looking forward to digging into this new perspective on Javascript mastery from someone who's approached Javascript like a true martial artist.
If you're a beginner, this book is not for you yet. It is aimed at apprentices with intermediate level JS skill-sets. As a group, we will review the building blocks of Javascript mastery: functions, closures, object-oriented Javascript, prototypes, testing, dom-scripting, and cross-browser JS development.
Rather than try to consume the entire book in one month, we thought it might be better to take it slower, so we can really take in the learnings at a steady pace. Let us know what you think.
We're asking everyone to read the first two parts of Secrets of the Javascript Ninja for the initial meeting, and come prepared to discuss what you learned and what you thought. That would take us through "Taming Threads and Timers." At that point we can all see where we are, and how we prefer to proceed.
For this month:
PART 1 PREPARING FOR TRAINING
Enter the ninja
Arming with testing and debugging
PART 2 APPRENTICE TRAINING
Functions are fundamental
Wielding functions
Closing in on closures
Object-orientation with prototypes
Wrangling regular expressions
Taming threads and timers
For later:
PART 3 NINJA TRAINING
Ninja alchemy: runtime code evaluation
With statements
Developing cross-browser strategies
Cutting through attributes, properties, and CSS
PART 4 MASTER TRAINING
Surviving events
Manipulating the DOM
CSS selector engines
Note: We've updated the date to Monday, May 6, to accommodate those who are attending Railsconf. We also added a location, and increased the number of spots available to let in more folks from the waiting list, thanks to the generous folks at Zencoder.
Great for the first meeting of this meetup. The scope of the meetup was a little broad, half(!) of Secrets of the Javascript Ninja, by John Resig. I would've loved to see, or been able to present, specific code examples illustrating specific concepts. Nonetheless, the attendees were knowledgeable and thoughtful, and the discussion was lively, entertaining, and insightful. The meetup hosts will change the format of the next meetup slightly, so there is more of a deep dive into specific topics.
2 · May 7, 2013
Thanks for the feedback Ken. I agree, presenting code samples would be great. We'll experiment with a whiteboard for the next meetup. Thanks for coming!
May 7, 2013
I will have to show up an hour late due to an appointment so am freeing up my spot... very reluctantly. Want to be there for part two though!
May 3, 2013
meteor js expert here, just did a lightning talk at their dev shop 3, just moved here from nyc, really wanna go to this meetup ;).
April 28, 2013
Busy on May 6th. Keep in mind, prototypes are clones of Objects; classes are a description of an object.
April 22, 2013
Conflict with another meetup.
April 15, 2013
I may be able to get space at the Microsoft San Francisco office if there is interest.
1 · March 26, 2013
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Very nice. Well planned but not rigidly so. Good discussion about and around the book and js.