I've recently picked up meteor since the place I joined newly is using it in production. Put myself through a crash course using the discover meteor book. Any new resources on how to learn Meteor are much appreciated so just wanted to say thank you for this. It's awesome that you picked one of the simpler examples that still cover the core principles of Meteor. The pattern in which the book is written along with the recommendations to read it once without coding and read it again this time coding is great.
The only quibble I can find with the book is that since you've said, experience with building web apps is not necessary, I think you might want to dedicate a chapter to teaching that. I remember learning web apps for the first time, and the only time it actually clicked into place was when the whole concept of how pieces come together was shown. Nothing fancy. I learned web apps using udacity's course so that should give an idea of how simple a chapter it should be. I think it would really help given how much magic seems to be going on at any time with Meteor.
Thanks again for this. Kudos and keep up the good work
As for your suggestion, I'll have to check out that Udacity course like you suggested. My worry is that the book could become too heavy on the theory within the first few pages — I mostly want to get the reader's fingers on the keyboard as soon as humanly possible — but can see where you're coming from and will do what I can in the next few versions of the book. :)
Since you mentioned it, I wanted to highlight the Discover Meteor book as well. I went through it when they had the free access weekend a while back and found it extremely informative and helpful to the point I purchased it afterwards.
This one looks great as well from a first glance so I'm excited to check it out.
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I've recently picked up meteor since the place I joined newly is using it in production. Put myself through a crash course using the discover meteor book. Any new resources on how to learn Meteor are much appreciated so just wanted to say thank you for this. It's awesome that you picked one of the simpler examples that still cover the core principles of Meteor. The pattern in which the book is written along with the recommendations to read it once without coding and read it again this time coding is great.
The only quibble I can find with the book is that since you've said, experience with building web apps is not necessary, I think you might want to dedicate a chapter to teaching that. I remember learning web apps for the first time, and the only time it actually clicked into place was when the whole concept of how pieces come together was shown. Nothing fancy. I learned web apps using udacity's course so that should give an idea of how simple a chapter it should be. I think it would really help given how much magic seems to be going on at any time with Meteor.
Thanks again for this. Kudos and keep up the good work
Thanks for the kind words, man, Much appreciated.
As for your suggestion, I'll have to check out that Udacity course like you suggested. My worry is that the book could become too heavy on the theory within the first few pages — I mostly want to get the reader's fingers on the keyboard as soon as humanly possible — but can see where you're coming from and will do what I can in the next few versions of the book. :)
Since you mentioned it, I wanted to highlight the Discover Meteor book as well. I went through it when they had the free access weekend a while back and found it extremely informative and helpful to the point I purchased it afterwards.
This one looks great as well from a first glance so I'm excited to check it out.