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What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:17:37 GMT

I have seen various websites that have free instructional courses to help teach you how to code. In particular, these have caught my eye:

https://www.codecademy.com/ -- (free)

http://www.freecodecamp.com/ -- (free)

https://www.codeschool.com/ -- (not free)

https://teamtreehouse.com/ -- (not free)

https://www.codeavengers.com/ -- (not free)

Does anyone have experience with this? And is there one that would be best to integrate into GIS, particularly ArcGIS API for JavaScript? Or maybe there is something I am completely missing in my minimal search on how to teach myself coding…

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

TimWitt2 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:25:16 GMT

Adrian,

I used code academy exclusively to get the knowledge on how to use javascript and html. Once I finished those tutorials I went to Build your first application | Guide | ArcGIS API for JavaScript and worked through the tutorial.

I wish when I started learning , this book would have been available Esri Press | Getting to Know Web GIS |

I know you look for free products but this book would really help you understand how to create web apps with the ArcGIS Javascript API. You can probably find this book cheaper somewhere else.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

CurtisDeVault — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:39:08 GMT

I too used Code Academy and it was great. I have done JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Python...it made me much more confident to tackle some of the python scripts I have wrote.

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

RickeyFight — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:54:14 GMT

I have used both code Academy and Free code camp.

I like Free code camp a little better for javascript but Code Academy is better in HTML and CSS.

I am currently going though Free code camp though

I have used Eric Pimpler - GTS’s Videos on Vimeo

Eloquent JavaScript

HTML/CSS/JavaScript for Complete Beginners

EDIT : A list of places to learn code. The Best Websites to Learn How to Write Code

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:00:28 GMT

Thanks for sharing the Eric Pimpler videos. I can see where those will come in handy!

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:02:05 GMT

These seems like a good approach. I have played around a little with the "build your first app" page you listed. I wonder if I can get my organization to buy that book...

Does the book have a lot of coding sections or is it mostly Web Maps in general?

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

TimWitt2 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:05:39 GMT

It has a lot of coding in it and goes through example apps. It is also nice since it helps with debugging.

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

LarryStout1 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:06:11 GMT

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford is a must read. And it's free.

Short and to the point. Just don't get bogged down by the chapter on regular expressions.

http://bdcampbell.net/javascript/book/javascript_the_good_parts.pdf

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:07:19 GMT

Hmm, that sounds pretty useful. Does the book come in a digital format or is it just paper?

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

TimWitt2 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:15:07 GMT

I think only printed.

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

RickeyFight — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:18:29 GMT

It looks like you can get it on kindle

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Know-Web-GIS-Pinde-ebook/dp/B013S0UYRC/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:22:59 GMT

Nice to see there are quite a few of the ArcGIS titles now available as Kindle. I had no idea.

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:33:17 GMT

Thanks! I'll have to check it out.

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

NobbirAhmed — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:41:40 GMT

General HTML and JavaScript: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

and specific ArcGIS online: Concepts Overview | Guide | ArcGIS API for JavaScript

You don't need to learn a whole lot of JavaScript to get going with Esri's online stuff. There are tons of samples and example codes on ArcGIS API link. Use the sandbox in both links.

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:31:43 GMT

That's true about the tons of samples. I have seen lots. I feel like I really want to understand it all and want to be able to know how to create something from scratch (though I will likely always start with some existing stuff and modify it).

Re: What is the best place to get training on JavaScript and HTML (preferably for free)?

NobbirAhmed — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:47:25 GMT

You are right about Esri's samples - one can easily get lost Other aspect is Esri's samples use Dojo toolkit whereas most other (non-esri) samples use jQuery.