John's an awesome guy. He has a great ability to consume technologies and present them in a clear and concise way.<p>These videos are professional and helped me quickly get up to speed with Angular (the greatest web framework yet).<p>John's videos are also featured on the Angular website.<p>PS - John also has the great pleasure of being a developer evangelist for Webstorm (the greatest web IDE) at Jetbrains.<p>PPS - You should follow him.
Thanks everyone!<p>I never expected Egghead to get so popular before I even launched a single course... I don't even have the logo done yet!<p>Anyway, keep checking back and/or follow the twitter account @eggheadio for updates (until I get a proper news feed built-in). I've got plenty more videos in the pipeline!
I just posted these less than a week ago on the Angular mailing list, and I think I might have blown any potential cover you had John... or at least any time to get a logo done =) Sorry!
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/angular/pvV6JOTHXiA/discussion" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/d/topic/angular/pvV6JOTHXiA/discus...</a><p>That said, beginners should watch the first 10 videos or so. Once you're comfortable with the idea behind directives, start watching the isolate scope videos. Those are golden. I've spent a TON of time staring at the angular directive docs trying to grok the different transclusion and the different scope declarations, with no luck. These videos are what actually taught me how this stuff works. They were so desperately needed.<p>Thank you John!
John I just want to say thank you. Unfortunately text cannot quite convey how grateful I am for you making these videos but if I could tell you in person you would know.<p>I developed a web app in Angular.js and find it a great framework to work with, but unfortunately there wasn't any great way to learn it when I was starting out. The documentation makes sense once you know Angular but it isn't good for someone just starting out with the framework. I actually remember watching your videos on youtube about writing directives last summer and thought they were one of the most concise yet unassuming "tutorial" videos in the tech world I have ever seen.<p>Thank you!
Can anyone share how does it compare to knockout.js? Coming from a .net winforms background, the knockout.js seems more 'home' for me (similar to the databinding in winforms), whereas there is a lot of 'new' concepts in Angular.js and I'm kind of lost in their tutorial...
This is great. One of the trickiest parts of learning AngularJS is figuring out how directives work, and how to write your own effective directives. The Angular team posted a couple of vids the other day that helped me a lot <a href="http://blog.angularjs.org/2012/11/about-those-directives.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.angularjs.org/2012/11/about-those-directives.htm...</a><p>I'd love to see more videos focusing on directives -- as I think the rest of it is fairly straight-forward. It looks like there are a number of vids here that address directives, so I'm looking forward to watching them.
I've been watching those videos lately because as a non developer, I find it difficult to wrap my head around Backbone. I tried the tut+ Premium tutorial, CodeSchool & CodePeep videos without luck.<p>So I though maybe it's the framework that's not for me and looked into AngularJS and stumble upon those videos and boy those it make AngularJS SO MUCH EASY to understand. Or maybe it's just that angular is easier for me the understand than Backbone.<p>Anyway, Awesome videos and very easy to follow. Also that Webstorm IDE look nice :)
Unrelated:<p>I am trying to convince a client to use angular instead of backbone.<p>They are however thrown off by the fact that there aren't many startups using it in production. And I can't figure a satisfactory answer to that. Any explanations why is that?
That guy knows how to explain stuff. I also like that those videos are short and he tries to keep it simple and focused on one thing.<p>I've tried to watch some videos made by Miško Hevery and others and they may be also great... but some of those videos are more than hour long and for me that is just a bit too much to swallow. Seems like there are so many unnecessary details that it makes it difficult to get and remember the important stuff.<p>John Lindquist seems to know how to gradually build up to more and more detailed knowledge... and I love it.
lol, I posted this a week ago on HN and it didn't seem to get any traction. Strange the submission didn't combine on submit seeing how they have the same url.
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115302" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115302</a>
I've been wokring with Angular for several months. John showed me in 3 minutes what "transclusion" is, something the documentation has failed to do even after numerous readings. The format, examples and explanations in these tutorial are perfect - keep'em coming
This is awesome. I've watched some of John's AngularJS videos before, and they've been the best resources on the subject that I've seen.<p>His earlier stuff on ActionScript 3 and design patterns was superb, too.