On Jul 25, 3:13 am, Paul Bakaus <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > Answered above, the best way to learn any sort of framework is to look > at implementations, and explore how something is done. Generally though, > in order to use jQuery UI, you must have a basic understanding of jQuery, > so I would start with that first. jQuery UI builds on top of jQuery. >
JQuery is not easy to get to in the first steps, but compared to other frameworks, it is perhaps one of the easiest (talking about complete framework here, not merely a collection of utility functions), and one of the lightest as a matter of fact. The document, on the other hand, has improved incredibly since the past three years, and now it is as easy as ever to learn about JQuery + UI. My 2 cents here is that no one should complaint about the learning curve and user support in the forum as there hasn't been ever more help and documentation than now; we all learned, and started with way less support than what exists nowadays. As a final comment, many projects are made in demo for you to play with, and I don't know many authors who don't really mind anyone taking those demo and play with them to experiment with their plugins (after all, that's how we all find bugs and correct them). This is how I learned, personally. So, instead of starting out of the box with JQuery to integrate it into a real project, if any newbie does, create a simple project aside and play with it for a while, until you're confortable enough to integrate the library into a real thing. Take an existing plugin, and add some new feature to it, or even write a new one with the existing code layout, test it. If it doesn't work, find a similar project and see what the author(s) did to solve the problem. I'm not yet a veteran in the programming field, but I can say I have been around long enough to see a common mistake, in schools and about, where new comers get interested in programming, expecting things to be as easy as point and click (after all, this is what the major corporation want their products to be... I'm not using these products ;)), but the reality is that this will never teach anyone how things work, nor help someone comprehend why something is. The first quality of a programmer is curiosity. It starts there; find out how things work. Unlike any other fields, programming evolves as fast as new cars appear on the road! Anyone on sabbatical for a long period of time will tell how hard it is to get back into the bath (french proverb). Anyway, so don't be scared to get your hands dirty on small projects (1 html, 1 js, 1 css + JQuery + UI), then move on from there. Google is your friend, IRC is your friend (on freenode) when Google fails... if ever. Good luck! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
