理解Crockford的《Javascript: the Good Parts》中所写的内容是一个很好的假设，即一个人是一个体面的JS程序员。

你可以知道如何使用一个好的库，如JQuery，但仍然不知道Javascript隐藏的部分。

另一个注意事项是各种浏览器上的调试工具。JS程序员应该知道如何在不同的浏览器中调试代码。

哦!知道JSLint会完全伤害你的感情!!

jQuery。YUI。不是(等等等等)

框架可能很有用，但它们经常隐藏JavaScript和DOM实际工作的细节，这些细节有时很难看。如果你的目标是能够说“我懂JavaScript”，那么在一个框架上投入大量的时间是与此相反的。

这里有一些JavaScript语言的特性，你应该知道它在做什么，不会被发现，但对很多人来说不是很明显:

That object.prop and object['prop'] are the same thing (so can you please stop using eval, thanks); that object properties are always strings (even for arrays); what for...in is for (and what it isn't). Property-sniffing; what undefined is (and why it smells); why the seemingly-little-known in operator is beneficial and different from typeof/undefined checks; hasOwnProperty; the purpose of delete. That the Number datatype is really a float; the language-independent difficulties of using floats; avoiding the parseInt octal trap. Nested function scoping; the necessity of using var in the scope you want to avoid accidental globals; how scopes can be used for closures; the closure loop problem. How global variables and window properties collide; how global variables and document elements shouldn't collide but do in IE; the necessity of using var in global scope too to avoid this. How the function statement acts to ‘hoist’ a definition before code preceding it; the difference between function statements and function expressions; why named function expressions should not be used. How constructor functions, the prototype property and the new operator really work; methods of exploiting this to create the normal class/subclass/instance system you actually wanted; when you might want to use closure-based objects instead of prototyping. (Most JS tutorial material is absolutely terrible on this; it took me years to get it straight in my head.) How this is determined at call-time, not bound; how consequently method-passing doesn't work like you expect from other languages; how closures or Function#bind may be used to get around that. Other ECMAScript Fifth Edition features like indexOf, forEach and the functional-programming methods on Array; how to fix up older browsers to ensure you can use them; using them with inline anonymous function expressions to get compact, readable code. The flow of control between the browser and user code; synchronous and asynchronous execution; events that fire inside the flow of control (eg. focus) vs. events and timeouts that occur when control returns; how calling a supposedly-synchronous builtin like alert can end up causing potentially-disastrous re-entrancy. How cross-window scripting affects instanceof; how cross-window scripting affects the control flow across different documents; how postMessage will hopefully fix this.

请看关于最后两项的答案。

最重要的是，你应该批判性地看待JavaScript，承认由于历史原因，它是一种不完美的语言(甚至比大多数语言都不完美)，并避免它最糟糕的故障点。Crockford在这方面的工作绝对值得一读(尽管我并不100%同意他关于“好的部分”是什么)。

在阅读了以上所有内容之后，使用jQuery这样的框架来学习Javascript也是完全没问题的。事实上，这是很多人开始接触JS的第一种方式。这并不可耻。

Javascript对象和函数都是一等公民，回调，别忘了还有事件和JQuery。

知道Javascript最初被称为LiveScript，加上“Java”前缀是出于营销目的，而不是因为Java和Javascript有关系(它们并没有关系)。

哦，对于拥有任何版本的David Flanagan的“Javascript:权威指南”(这一信息在第2页)。

．.． 感谢那些之前试图混淆ie4文档的人。all[]和Netscape Navigator 4的文档。在Jquery之前使用layers[]消除了这种痛苦。

编辑:

正如@Kinopiko指出的，JavaScript最初被称为项目Mocha(一些消息来源也认为它被称为项目LiveWire)，但人们普遍认为，该语言(由Brendan Eich编写)在1996年初发布时采用Java前缀之前，计划以LiveScript的形式发布。

由于JS是一种函数式语言，一个优秀的JS程序员必须能够写出Y-combinator，并能毫不费力地解释它是如何工作的。