Thanks for this. As one who is struggling to make much headway with learning JS, it’s always good to have some pointers. My weakness is that I’m not good at “getting my hands dirty”, so to speak—which seems to be essential for learning to program. But I’ve had to accept that reading the books and getting the theory is simply not enough.
There are some older JS books I like, but I know there are more modern ways to code JS. One exercise I’ve been finding useful is to see if I can adapt those older scripts to newer conventions, as well as stripping out deviant code for older versions of IE, stripping out dependency on jQuery etc. It’s very satisfying to adapt code like that.