Books vs office. documentation vs articles vs video courses: what is the best way to learn a new technology or framework?

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Interested in how best to self-learn a new technology, now at the intermediate level of html, css, javascript, taught almost everything in video courses. I started reading a book on JS, and somehow I don’t know, everything is going very slowly, then I throw it, then I return to it again. Interested in how you learn some new library, the same jquery, just from the office. documentation, or read a book about it, or watch a video, or articles?

And yet, can someone recommend some English-language documentation on Javascript and JQuery for beginners? JS is of particular interest, since MDN is somehow too confusing for a beginner. Interested in English, I know about javascript.ru. For css3 and HTML, I found convenient documentation for myself, but js is not yet available, maybe someone from personal experience will tell you.

Answer 1

It seems to me, or do you position these methods of obtaining information as mutually exclusive?
My advice is:

• for the first acquaintance - a couple of video lessons;
  
• for the foundation, the foundation of knowledge - documentation;
  
• to study non-standard solutions, update information, best practice - reading blogs / articles / thematic sites.
  

Answer 2

According to the library or framework:
1. Architecture scheme and its understanding,
2. hello world (code) and analysis ("overlay") of the code on the architectural scheme.
3. Understanding the basic architectural "skeleton" of the application.
4. A quick look at the OOB (out-of-box / "out of the box")
functions 5. View the ability to connect plugins and a quick look at the current list and the functions they implement.
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Setting a task for yourself and the beginning of implementation on the studied instrument.

Answer 3

in the case of libraries, I look at examples to understand what this thing does and why it does it, then I get into the code and documentation;
in the case of frameworks, I look at some short guide or getting started, I get into the code and documentation.
Say, about a year ago, I dealt with a new thing for me - webgl, Wikipedia, articles on the Internet, examples, and sort of sorted out the basics. Then he began to write a primitive toy just to figure it out, and stopped there. Further, books would most likely go, a more in-depth study of the GPU architecture and the organization of the graphics pipeline, books on opengl, etc. Fortunately, I already knew some of this, and I only needed webgl to speed up the rendering of images on the client.

Answer 4

Comparison of self-learning methods

Answer 5

I can suggest a very fast way.
To get even faster:

1. Make notes with felt-tip pens
   
2. Do as many micro-projects as possible as part of your training
   
3. Practice by the hour