What is the best way to begin with jQuery?

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Where can I find a tutorial to get started learning jQuery?

Considering I am new to jQuery technology, what is the best way to begin with it?

Related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/168802/where-can-i-find-a-tutorial-to-get-started-learning-jquery — rosscj2533, Dec 11 '09 at 21:03

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:43

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Visiting http://jquery.com/ and reading the tutorials is probably the best way to go. Google works really well too.

answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:43

JasCav

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Don't forget Visual jQuery (http://visualjquery.com/)! (even if it hasn't been updated) – Mottie Dec 11 '09 at 21:40

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:55

When I first started I opened up notepad and put the following code in

<html>
    <head>                                                                  
        <script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>          
        <script type="text/javascript">                                         
            $(document).ready(function() {
                $("a").click(function() {
                        alert("Hello world!");
                    });
            });

        </script>                                                               
    </head>                                                                 
<body>                                                                  
   <a href="#" id="Test"></a>                                     
</body>                                                                 
</html>

After I got that working I visted Jquery.com and 1 by one tried each of the JQuery API reference sections and tried a few of them out. You can find those here http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page

They have quite a lot of tutorials, however, I personally found it easier to just try things out for myself using the API reference. I also found cheat sheets like this one useful: http://net.tutsplus.com/freebies/cheat-sheets/jquery-cheat-sheet/

I then read these excelent tips: http://www.tvidesign.co.uk/blog/improve-your-jquery-25-excellent-tips.aspx

Then learn't to put a plugin together here: http://www.learningjquery.com/2007/10/a-plugin-development-pattern

Thats it really... In a nutshell that's how I learn't JQuery.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 09 '12 at 16:22

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If you are new to jQuery, you'd best go to the jQuery website, and then read some jQuery tutorials.

And of course practice: just try it, jQuery is not very hard to learn, so just try to implement it in a website, and refer to the jQuery website or to SO to get help.

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answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:45

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:43

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I would start with the JQuery Tutorial straight from the JQuery site

http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:43

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How jQuery Works

jQuery Tutorials

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:43

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The docs are a great place to start. They have good examples of different functionality. jQuery Docs

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:44

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The first step might be to take a look at its documentation : it will allow you see what it can do, and the basics of the "how".

answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:44

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:48

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Some suggestions: - Try a few development environments and tools (IntelliJ, Firebug) - Write a todo application that beats mine :)

answered Dec 11 '09 at 20:48

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What is the best way to begin with jQuery?

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