001 jsAir - Learning and Developing JavaScript with Ashley G. Williams and Kyle Simpson
December 17, 2015 - Kent C. Dodds
Learning and Developing JavaScript with Ashley G. Williams and Kyle SimpsonDescription:
Ashley and Kyle know a thing or two about teaching JavaScript. These two wonderful people will jump on and chat with us about learning and developing this wonky language called JavaScript.
Show sponsors:- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- {Track:js} - JavaScript Error Monitoring
- Links: If you wish to learn ES6 from scratch you must first invent the universe at JSconf2015 and Breakfast Repo
- Tips: Investigate the programming languages you use as tools and Learn about different programming paradigms and translate side projects into them
- Picks: Javascript Allonge, Hello Declarative World!my ES6 implementation, Simple Made Easy, Rich Hickey, and Growing a Language, Guy Steele
- Links: MakerSquare, Build Your Own Angular, BannerFrom NAND to Tetris, and Thunder Plains Conference
- Tips: Give yourself deadlines to learn stuff (talk to give or blog to post) and Unplug and sharpen the ax
- Picks: David Nolen (cognicast episode), BlissfulJS, and ES6 & Beyond
- Tips: Start procedural => Learn OO => Learn FP
- Picks: Jared Tobin Recursive Types and Hard Jones’ Computational Effects
- Tips: Contribute to Open Source (What open source project should I contribute to?)
- Picks: Slides.com and TodoMVC
- Tips: ESLint use it! To start using it on large codebases, add all files to .eslintignore and then tackle files one by one. This cuts down on the number of collisions with other PRs. Look for additional plugins, like the React ESLint plugin, and you can create your own
- Picks: Async & Performance (plus the whole YDKJS series) and Understanding ES6