Reddit reviews Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms: Hone your skills by learning classic data structures and algorithms in JavaScript, 2nd Edition

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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition is a really good book with clear explanations and code examples.

Grokking Algorithms is also a wonderful book especially for non-CS people and beginners. The examples are in Python but it shouldn't be a problem given your Ruby and JavaScript background.

Sorry, got busy for the holidays.

It seems like you're falling victim to the same cycle that a lot of us have. You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience without a job. It doesn't make a ton of sense.

Google/Amazon/Uber rely heavily on data structure and algorithm knowledge in their interviews. I have the first edition of this book for JS data structures. I went through it and coded all of them out. It helps to understand them.

In my master's program, I had a class on algorithm design that in hindsight, I wish I had paid more attention to. We used this book but I think there are better ones available now.

I have this book as a general interview reference which may summarize the above two suggestions better for the interviews.

Time/space complexity was also helpful information to know. Big O notation is a useful thing to have in your arsenal to begin with.

These are just suggestions for notorious interviews for infamous tech companies. Not every company is going to grill you about these concepts. But having been someone who has failed several intense programming interviews, and now conducts them for our company, I think all of this information is applicable, and a true tech company likely won't grill you about job experience if you can apply these concepts on a whiteboard without thinking about it.

Data Science is a great spot to be in right now. Spend a little time every day applying some programming principles to big datasets. It should be enough to land you a job at a solid company if even at an entry-level position.

Also, get out of AngularJS and learn Angular 2+. React/React Native also seem to be in high demand. They have become commonplace at most large companies trying to stay on the edge of technology for their users.

thanks for following up.

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This is the Javascript book. So my PLAN, is to read Grokking first, then this, then finish with the Algorithm Design Manual... I should have enough of the basics down by then to graduate onto the big boy.

Also... at the end of the day, I'm not a backend guy so I don't need to understand algorithms on the level of some of you guys... I mostly want it to cement myself as a senior in the FE department, with a path to be a beginner on Node.js stuff and that's really it. You think with that in mind, that's a good plan?

Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms is a good book.

Im reading testable javascript and Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition

Eloquent Javascript is great and I like what Eric Elliot writes in [Javascript Scene] (https://medium.com/javascript-scene), heres a book list