I’ve had a hard time learning JavaScript over the years.  Mainly because I only learn it as I need to use it and most of the code I use is what I find doing a search for a single specific topic.  One of my goals last year was to improve these skills.  A new SPA project at work has helped me quite a bit but I keep looking for better information.  Someone had recommended the book “JavaScript the Good Parts” by Douglas Crockford.  I picked it up, read the intro, paged through it a few times, and promptly forgot I had purchased it.  A few days ago I was looking at Pluralsight to find something new to watch and found out that there was a new course called “JavaScript the Good Parts” out there authored by none other than Mr. Crockford himself.  I watched it and realized that it was the piece I was missing.  Between the book and the course I have finally found both pieces of the puzzle that is JavaScript.  I’ll be watching the course a few times to try to catch more of the nuances of the language that have evaded me.