When you look at just about any web page these days, you see lots of $ symbols. This means the web page is using jQuery. What is jQuery?
Basically jQuery takes a lot of tasks that are hard to do with javascript and html, and makes them easier. For example dealing with files and xml documents is really hard normally. jQuery reduces the hardness to a few commands. You still have to know what you are doing, but the process and the time it takes to make it happen is reduced.
I was hoping that jQuery would be some sort of Candy Mountain where I could type "make awesome webpage" and a beautiful page would appear. Sadly it is not. But jQuery is pretty cool.
This post from StackOverflow has some suggestions about how to learn jQuery. I will be using them in the coming weeks.
Conclusion: jQuery is not Candy Mountain, but it is a nice off-road vehicle that can get you there faster.
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Agreed. It’s cool once you get the hang of it, but it can be a pain to sift through docs and examples until you find exactly what you need.
Agreed. It’s cool once you get the hang of it, but it can be a pain to sift through docs and examples until you find exactly what you need.