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As a curious web developer I've been hearing about node.js for several months and (just) now I'd like to learn it and, most of all, understand its "engine".

So, as a real newbie about node.js I'm going to follow some tutorials. And as every new technology over the internet, find a very good and exhaustive tutorial is like looking for a needle in a haystack :)

My "big question" can be split into this 2 sub-questions:

  • I know node.js can be very useful to build web-chats. But, apart from this example (and from helloworld one :D), how could I use it? Which are the real-life examples that let me think i.e. "oh, it's fantastic, I could really integrate it for my daily projects"?

  • I also know it implements some JS specifications. It is required to deeply know other programming languages apart from JS?

Thanks everyone!

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nodetuts.com has some really good videos(although at times I think the pace could be a little faster). Just sit back, relax and watch to learn node.js

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Thanks a lot alfred ;) – stecb Jan 18 '11 at 11:02
@steweb no problem – Alfred Jan 18 '11 at 19:18

Regarding learning material - E-Books

  1. NodeBeginner
  2. MasteringNode
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