Recently, I studied JavaScript and jQuery by reading books and completing many online exercises from the A Smarter Way to Learn website. The platform is well known for its unique learning method, which combines short, easy-to-read chapters with immediate interactive exercises that help reinforce understanding and improve retention.

What makes this approach especially effective is its clear and simple style. Complex programming concepts are explained in straightforward, “layman’s” language, making difficult computer languages much easier to understand and practice. This combination of concise lessons and hands-on exercises creates an efficient and engaging way to learn programming skills.

My JavaScript On-line Certificate

My jQuery On-line Certificate

A Smarter Way to Learn books, including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Python, are available on Amazon Books.

Author’s Preface

A few years ago I set out to teach myself JavaScript by reading programming books. It was such a struggle that I decided I must have lost some learning ability over the years. Then it hit me… I wasn’t a bad learner. The books were bad teachers! I fought my way through a dozen books, and by brute effort, learned JavaScript. But I had to design exercises for myself. Without practice, I couldn’t retain anything. JavaScript, I learned, isn’t that hard. The books make it hard. So I wrote a book that makes JavaScript easy. And, since exercises are the only way to make the knowledge stick, I programmed 1,750 of them for you. I’m a former lecturer in the Communications School of Boston University. I hold an A.B. from Harvard. My professional focus is on using technology to reduce the effort and tedium of learning, primarily through interactivity. I’m developing the “A Smarter Way to Learn” series on programming, a collection of instructional books paired with online interactive exercises. I run the website https://www.ASmarterWayToLearn.com. Along with my wife Judy and our two politically-active cats, I live in Taos, NM, where I cook under the ghostly supervision of Marcella Hazan, read extensively, play showboat frisbee once a week, and long for more episodes of “Breaking Bad.”

– Mark Myers, author of the “A Smarter Way to Learn” series of computer programming books