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By this logic, you will never need technical books, only manuals.

I think a introduction could be great for someone who is beginner and want to start from the ground up. If you send them to api.jquery.com, they will get completely lost. You are understimating the amount of knowledge required to get started with jQuery (you have to know HTML, CSS selectors, JavaScript and then the actual jQuery)



I, for one, am happy this link appeared here. I am one of those: know a bit of CSS, a bit of HTML, a bit of JavaScript and I want to know what this jQuery stuff is all about. Going to the API? Nope, I'd assume this takes at least an afternoon; which I don't have.


I'm in the same situation and I think this blog post is useful.


Have you read the docs, ever? They have any implementation you'd need. Want to write a plugin? There's a document for it. Plus the comments are actually useful.


I am familiar with the docs, thank you.

Let's say, I am a beginner who knows little bit of HTML. Little bit of CSS. How do you suggest I use api.jquery.com to learn jQuery?

If you linked to http://docs.jquery.com/How_jQuery_Works , it would still make sense.

None the less, I don't think there can be too many tutorials teaching various technologies. If you don't like them, don't read them.




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