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[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="nope"]coming up with ways to use lists of methods I find in the w3schools references. I feel like there's a fortune to be made for the first person who can write a decent textbook on this stuff. Engineers are freaking terrible at writing instructional material. <u>Modern Javascript</u> is the class' official textbook and it's written with awful circular explanations. I swear to god it uses definitions like "A constructor function is a function that uses a constructor." I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck for hours on a concept in the book that I was able to get in 30 seconds of someone in person explaining it. Fuck programming. Engineer ghostwriting is where the money is.[/quote] My understanding is that Mark Pilgrim wrote some really great guides under the "Dive Into" series. <a href="http://www.diveintopython.net/">Here's one about Python.</a> At the moment, Mark Pilgrim would really appreciate it if the Internet forgot all about him. So I am not trying to get on his bad side, but he is extremely talented. I don't believe he had written anything for JavaScript. The book that taught me to program was <a href="http://inform-fiction.org/manual/html/contents.html">this one</a>, the Inform Designer's Manual. Now, I had taken many computer programming classes before I found the IDM. I wasn't introduced to syntax or loops or whatnot with it. When I say it taught me to program, I mean that it explained concept to me in a way that I could understand and care about. I wanted to write classes so I could implement the classes that the book talked about. I wanted to create objects so that I could fill rooms with them. It also went a long way towards giving me an end goal. ICJ [/quote]