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Discussion on: How to not be a dinosaur.

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JSH

Great post, suggestions and conclusion. I am not even from the Web Dev vertical, and thus the amount of choices and frameworks just boggles me to even start somewhere, coming from the Linux/C programming land (maybe the big-bang era). Just few months ago I was thinking getting towards jQuery would be cool, lol.

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Johan van Tongeren

Haha! Learning jQuery can still be fun and there might be a lot of applications for that, but I think there are better things to learn these days πŸ˜‰

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JSH

Ok, and will the "better" things have a dependency on understanding jQuery or just the Javascript basics etc. Is there a generation map you can point me to?

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Johan van Tongeren

It wouldn't be bad to understand some basic jQuery, since there is a big chance you'll run into it somewhere, but if I were you I'd probably focus on JS and ES (ecmascript) since these are the basics of all other frameworks and compilers.