| Feel free to disregard this advice, I don't do anything in javascript. Whether or not it's worth becoming good at jQuery is essentially determined by your goals in life, and whether becoming good at jQuery in particular, is in alignment with those goals and also of high importance. Any time you spend honing one skill is time not spent honing another. You want to be sure to spend your time on the most important things. Figuring out what is important itself becomes a skill to learn. Pinging HN on whether it's worth learning jQuery is one way to assess importance. But keep in mind, if the people who answer have different goals than you, their answer may not be relevant and may actually be bad advice for your case. This answer included. Figure out your goals. Find people who have accomplished them. Talk to them directly about what they did and how they did it. Adapt what makes sense to your life. Finally, be careful of learning something just for the sake of learning. It feels great, but it can actually be procrastination in productivity's clothing. Make sure you are clear on why you are spending the time learning X right now, and be clear on why you are not spending time on learning Y right now. |