JSIfe Beginners Curriculum

The idea is to learn based on major topics that constitute JavaScript from different resources. But before you start, I will suggest you read this article on a beginners Javascript Study plan

The topics are divided into Four Phases

PHASE 1 (The JavaScript Language)

     

1. Introduction 
2. Syntax & Semantics
3. Primitive Values
4. Operators
5. Variables
6. Arrays
7. Objects (Literals)
8. Control Structure
9. Functions
10. Variables (Scoping/Closures)
11. Error/Exception handling
12. Objects (Constructors)
13. JavaScript’s other objects (like maths, date, regular expression )

Books to read for Phase 1 

JavaScript for kids-A playful Intro (all)

JavaScript: Novice to Ninja (all)

Speaking JavaScript (all)

Online Resources for Phase 1

What is JavaScript? Complete Introduction with Hello World! Example

JavaScript Introduction

Introduction

Make sure to use the console on your browser or a console of any JavaScript runtime at this point and take each topic one by one by extracting knowledge from the resources.

---

PHASE 2 (JavaScript Language with Document Object Model- DOM & Browser Object Model- BOM)

1. Event

2. Document Object Model (DOM)

3. Frame object

4. Location object

5. History object

6. Navigator object

7. Window object

8. Screen object  

Books for  Phase 2 is as follows;

Voodoo's Introduction to JavaScript (all)

Beginning HTML,CSS & JavaScript (Chapter 11 to 13)

Sam-teach-yourself HTML,CSS & JavaScript (Chapter 15 - 25)

Get more codes on the above objects from the internet – like from Mozilla site. Try to Use a text/code editor or an IDE at this phase and run code with your browser or any JavaScript runtime like nwjs.

---

PHASE 3 (JavaScript Technologies)

1. JavaScript Library (Like the popular jQuery, Angular etc)

2. Database Technology (web storage, indexDB, sqlite, mongoDB etc)

3. Client-Server Side Technology (AJAX, AJAJ/JSON)

4. Server-Side Technology (nodejs)

 

Books for this phase are;

jQuery Novice to Ninja (all)

Angular in 60minutes

JavaScript and Node Fundamentals (all)

Eloquent JavaScript (all)

---

PHASE 4 (Applied JavaScript)

1. Web
2. Desktop
3. Mobile
4. Embedded System

Books for this phase are:

Building Android apps with HTML_CSS_JavaScript

jQuery Mobile  

There are available runtime for developing desktop apps like nwjs (formerly Node-Webki), electron (formerly atom shell) and so on. Get any of them.

---

Addons:

Books for Quick revision:

  JavaScript Tutorial (all)

Essential JavaScript (all)