Thank you Girish, It would be better if you had also included the learning path as well as the amount of effort (time variant and a small project)
How easy is to do application with respect to to the other languages. On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > node.js is serverside javascripting. > > In short whatever we used to do with C, perl, python and web CGI and > UNIX can now be done with the Google's V8 javascript VM otherwise > known as node.js. > > Node.js is the most sought after skill in odesk though there may be > other things that people look for that are more popular. > > There is a package management system called npm(node package manager) > that helps you install node.js plugins just like Perl CPAN modules. > > Using node.js you can easily do complex things using UNIX as all this > javascript code runs using full rights on a server, not inside a > browser. > > I entered this world only 8 months ago or so. But already I have > covered some ground though of course I need to spend another year to > get comfort. > > But in general it is a great way to learn in some cases. > > Javascript is a very complex and comprehensive language learnt only by > lot of effort and practice. > > It is well worth it, once you learn it you can install spidermonkey > and learn with the js> interpreter. > > And you can of course use the browser plugins like Chrome debugger or > Firebug. > > But these days I never use Firefox. > > And once you learn javascript node.js can be mastered as it is only > javascript with some packages thrown in. > > Github is full of new node.js packages created each day. > > Javascript is completely asynchronous, there is no concept of blocking > or sequential execution. > > And node.js is no exception. > > This means programming can sometimes be very difficult. > > -Girish > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > -- Thanks & Regards, Saravanakumar Karunanithi _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
