jqueryEveryone learns things differently. As a designer, and more visually oriented learner, I have a hard time learning how to do things like programming. It took me a long time, a loooong time to wrap my head around Php, and even still I find that to be a challenge. I would love to learn it better so I could be one of those Php gurus out there, but it’s just not gonna happen people.

That doesn’t have to be the case with jQuery though I’ve found, because it is a lot more simple, and even more simple than I think it is too. It’s still programming yes, but it’s more “normal” than what I consider Php to be. Though, despite all that, I have still found myself not sitting down and actually learning it. I’ve tried, but when I do, I tend to get distracted with all the millions of things on the internet that are there to distract me. Have you had this problem ever? It can be annoying at times.

Many times when I try to focus on stuff like this, I start by looking up sites and finding resources which I can use to help me learn. Well, that’s when the distraction starts. I then start finding more and more and more, until I find myself basically creating a resource roundup that I can make a new blog post with, for others trying to learn the same stuff, instead of using the resources to help myself learn.

I apologize if this is the cycle which you have found yourself in right now too. I did not intend to distract you, but providing you with a ton of resources which you want to learn about, but have yet to do so. On that note, here is the list.

How Do You Learn jQuery?

Here are 14 ways you can start learning it.

With the release of jQuery 1.4 today, I’ll start with:
14 Days of jQuery.

I have found the best and most useful of these to be the sites that have video tutorials showing you visually since that’s how I learn. That’s why jqueryfordesigners.com and jQuery for Absolute Beginners 15 Day Video Series were the most helpful for me in my quest to START learning jQuery, instead of gathering information about it, in hopes that someday I might actually learn something about it.

I think I was hoping that the more resources about it I found, I would somehow magically know how to do it without putting in the work and learning how to do it.

So how did you learn jQuery?

Leave a comment with any tips you might have.

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