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…
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Thanks for sharing the Eric Pimpler videos. I can see where those will come in handy!
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
Thanks! I'll have to check it out.
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.
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).
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.