

I'm flying tonight - are there any decent NodeJS PDFs/ebooks? - bdickason

I've been dipping my toes into learning Node over the past few weeks and have had alot of trouble finding great documentation. I generally learn best when coding, but will be on a four hour flight tonight with no wifi and would love to take a Node 'book' with me.<p>Any suggestions?
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RDDavies
I'm actually looking on a good "starter" on NodeJS. Most of what I've read
seems to dive right in at a level above my head. (I'm reasonably familiar with
Javascript, although 90% of what I write is utilizing jQuery nowadays, so I'm
hazier about the core than I used to be.

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bdickason
I found the 'How to Node' blog to have the best examples that actually
contained working code (Express and other sites' example code doesn't seem to
be updated or work): <http://howtonode.org/>

I also stumbled upon this node project on Github and was learning from how he
put stuff together: <https://github.com/kelper/Poll>

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auganov
I don't know of any, let alone decent.

I think the best you can do is find some tutorials but even in that department
there's nothing to be crazy about.

So far it looks like the prime way to learn about it is to experiment (well I
guess that's the best way anyways).

It would be a good idea to look into some general JavaScript specific stuff if
you're not very familiar with it.

Or just download some sample projects from github and look at that during your
flight, haha.

4 hours is not that much anyways, so you might just as well give up on it.

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mcotton
Peepcode has a great screencast. It is a little dated but you can follow along
using older versions of node. This is a good place to start. I am starting to
do my own 5-minute screencasts.

<http://mcottondesign3.appspot.com/blog/screencasts>

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klaut
Sometime ago I came across those two (but haven't started reading them yet):
<http://nodebeginner.org/>, <http://nodetuts.com/handson-nodejs-book.html>

