Looking for good online Javascript Courses

So as to not continually lean on the community, I am looking at doing some self training in Javascript so that I can start creating my own API scripts. Could anyone point me at some good resources? I have next to no programming skills (1 very basic course about 15 years ago).

<a href="http://www.codecademy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.codecademy.com</a> and <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.khanacademy.org</a> are both excellent. Khan Academy has several curriculums aside from programming and imo is more solid...but Codecademy is more focused and allows you to learn other languages aside from Javascript and Python.

When I am googling the specifics of a library or function call, I often use w3schools.com as it can be used to test with their handy dandy in page code editor. I wouldn't recommend using their 'learn javascript' section for use with roll20 API scripts though, as it focuses more on javascript's ability to interact with the HTML and DOM of a page (which we do not really have access to). Hope that helps :D.

any and all info helps.

As someone who has been writing JS for 2+ years now, I feel the need to interject. For the love of all that is good, do NOT learn from w3schools as one of the above people advised. It is so bad, there is literally a site ( <a href="http://w3fools.com/" rel="nofollow">http://w3fools.com/</a> ) dedicated to helping people avoid them. The site I recommend for beginners is <a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html" rel="nofollow">http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html</a> They don't assume any prior knowledge, don't waste your time, and write very easy to digest material. That will get you quite decent in JavaScript, and if you need more after that, I would recommend the book Javascript:The Definitive Guide.

I find the #1 way to learn a new technology is to have a goal in mind and try to achieve it. You'll end up shaving a few Yaks , but keep your goal in mind and keep plugging away at it. I've learned more about programming from trying to get something to work than all the classes in the world could have ever taught me. (And electronics, and wine making and baking and ...)

David A. said: As someone who has been writing JS for 2+ years now, I feel the need to interject. For the love of all that is good, do NOT learn from w3schools as one of the above people advised. It is so bad, there is literally a site ( <a href="http://w3fools.com/" rel="nofollow">http://w3fools.com/</a> ) dedicated to helping people avoid them. Lol. yeah I wouldn't want it as my first source of JS knowledge, but I like it for debugging a quick method or call instead of needing to set up a build or something more complex. Compared to the amount of debugging I can have in the script editor, I'll take something like the silly editor in W3. Should have clarified I suppose.

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