I want to learn about node.js and fullstack javascript.
Books are too expensive.
In my library, the most recent book about javascript is of 1999.
Free resources suck and are far from a full understanding.
I give up

Nononono, sir! Better get ur ass down and fill the gap while learning it! Appreciated and making urself a name in the world 😉

"Free resources suck", strange, that's how 70% devs I know have learned programming (and not only)

@danzig666 thank you for motivation. Maybe I will give a last chance to node official documentation

Udemy has some great stuff!

@jsdev yes it was the last thing that I checked before posting on devRant. Paid courses are more expensive than books (they look great, but I don't have all that money) instead free courses are really limited, I already know how to do http.createServer(), I need something further

Full understanding won't come from documentation or books. That's theoretical understanding, at best.

You're gonna have to get your hands dirty and build shit (even if it really is shit) before real understanding begins to take shape ... Do that a lot, while also looking for articles and videos which address areas you are having trouble with to help accelerate learning in those areas.

Actually, as you progress, don't just look for resources on things you're having trouble with, but also with things you think you've got nailed down. They may bring to light issues, techniques or gotchas you hadn't yet had reason to come across.

I haven't worked with node myself, but that's how I approach every other area of self study and it has worked well for me.

Cant share links now but dont give up, eill share helpful links so you can learn

Official docs are fine but howtos bets practices and so on are handy too

"you don't know js". Google it. It's free and one of the best guides out there to really understand JavaScript.

@kanduvisla thank you :D

"Eloquent JavaScript"

Check back with your library. find a specific book you want to read and see if they can inter-library loan it to you from another library. You'd be surprised that they might have it in a library 50 miles away and that they'd ship it to your library for free for you. Borrowing process is the same but there might be a shorter time limit on how long you can borrow it.

Free resources ARE far from a full understanding. Now take the parts you do understand (even if only a little bit), and make something.
Pro tip: it won't work the first time, and it never does. But that's okay. Google the shit out of it until you fix it. Then keep going.
You're gonna feel like you aren't learning much, but that's when you go back and look at that first thing you ever wrote.
Pro tip: you will be both mortified that you ever wrote that, and you'll realize how far you've come.

The stuff on http://w3schools.com/js/... was helpful enough to get me started.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a js dev, but all devs need to know some js these days, which is why I did the tutorials.)

Actually, there are tons of resources on the Internet. Compared to back-in-the-day, when I started learning C in the 80's, things are so much easier these days. The equivalent of "Internet forum" used to be a bicycle ride across town in a snow storm, in order to get to some cold basement store room where a dozen nerds exchanged knowledge and photo copied magazine articles.

@crisz , check out Learn and Understand NodeJS by Anthony A. You'll always get a coupon code that brings the price down to 10$. If you look a bit further, you'll also find the course scattered across YouTube channels.

@crisz do you know www.freecodecamp.org ?

@heyheni I second this, I've been using Free Code Camp for the past few months and it's excellent. Like Codecademy, but without the, "great, what do I do next?" feeling afterwards.

@techwhisperer exactly! :D

I learned everything from YouTube and SO, and compared to friends who went to college and uni I get more money and I am very productive in hours spend/feature.

YouTube, used books, documentation, pdfs of books... The problem is that you are expecting the skills to be handed to you. Be resourceful, adaptive or don't be a dev.

I like code school for learning the basics. It's definitely high level but the lessons are interactive enough and just corny-funny enough to keep you interested. It's definitely not a deep dive but it's a good starting point.

Maybe this article will help you
My journey to becoming a web developer from scratch without a CS degree, 2 years later (and what I learned from it)
https://medium.com/@sgarcia.dev/...
I found it very interesting and it mentions a lot of learning resources (with links), some paid but most are free
I plan to read some of the books he recommends

Go on pluralsight. They have plethora of courses on JavaScript and node.is. Different learning paths for both.
For that you will need to pay for monthly subscription. But feet not connect with Microsoft developer, visual studio developer options for 3 months free subscription. If not clear then go to Google, type pluralsight free subscription and follow the first link on reddit.
It should get you started nicely. Don't give up on learning. :)

Maybe this website https://squerol.com//... will be useful... They are a search engine for online courses (free and paid). Also, this blog post shows the step by step to becoming a web dev blog.quero.com/become-web-developer

That's funny because this rant is 2 year old and now I'm a JS full stack developer lol