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Two New Series

Posted on 3rd October 2008 — First up, an apology for not being able to get the September article released. September was the peak of my work load (working evenings and weekends for a long while) and poor old J4D slipped by. Sorry all!

So, before I ask for your opinion on what’s next - the next screencast will be covering animations (of sorts), fundamentally similar to the jQuery Coda Slider, but being used in completely different ways - this should be online next week.

Next Up

I’ve been thinking about the next lot of tutorials, and I’ve been thinking about introducing two new ’series’ of screencasts, in addition to the existing request based tutorials:

  1. Playschool for jQuery
  2. Learning the jQuery API

Obviously I’d still accept requests and still try to mix it up a bit.

Playschool for jQuery (though the term/name may change) would be for absolute noobs and I’d try my best to keep it really simple and very much as a first time introduction to jQuery and JavaScript. However, it’s a bit of a risk, since it relies almost entirely on you, the reader, to point your newbie colleague to this web site.

The second would be a small section of the API chosen depending on demand or interest, and dipped in to. They will be designed to be short and sweet, and even accompany the API if possible. Ajax is a easy example to think of, but then we could look at the global Ajax functions, etc.

Let me know what you think. Good idea? Bad idea? Any other/better ideas?

Demo

If you find this demo doesn't work as expected, it's possibly due to the demo running from within an iframe. Try running the demo in it's own window.

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  1. Robert On 15th October 2008 at 13:10

    Another vote for Playschool.

    Thanks!

  2. Tjorriemorrie On 16th October 2008 at 10:10

    +1 for AJAX and looking forward to Playschool, woohoo

  3. VeriouS Smith III On 26th October 2008 at 04:10

    Yes, Yes , Yes!!! You Should include the absolute n00b series for n00bs like me.

  4. Sean O'Rear On 29th November 2008 at 20:11

    Hey - I’m a noob and you’ve hooked me already. I would love to see some more examples of basic coding to fill in my “swiss cheese” knowledge.

  5. schele On 17th May 2009 at 08:05

    Brilliant idea. Can’t have enough resources on Jquery as a noob, and J4D is one of the best! Although I notice this is a bit of an old thread, I thought it was worth mentioning

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