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[erda]

I'm curious to know how much javascript knowledge you all have. I'm about 170 pages into my Javascript Beginner's guide, so I know, um, not much.

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[rivenwanderer]

I know "enough to spend most of my time working with it for my day job"--the huge swaths of javascript that my coworker set up to run our site uses a lot of functions-that-return-other-functions and JSON and other things that seem kind of advanced but cool and useful. I know there are gaps in my knowledge, but I can find my way around well enough to read the code that's there, modify it, add my own, and look up the things that I'm not sure about.

[erda]

Sounds like you know quite a lot to me. I'd be ecstatic to be able to say I could do that much.

[rivenwanderer]

*nod* I'm not trying to do the false modesty thing here... it's more that my learning process has been somewhat quirky and disorganized (and walking the fine line between cargo-culting and learning-by-doing)... so I have less of a structured, well-rounded understanding of javascript than I'd like. I hope that I can put my working knowledge to use here and help out others with questions, and also push myself to do more background reading and gain a better understanding of the language in the process.