Introductory JavaScript programming task for an expert developer

Question

What would be a good mini-project to get intimate with JavaScript, as an advanced 'introduction' to the language? I want to actually code an application in JS, not hook up bits of it to enhance a web application.

Answer 1

A lot of stuff you could learn by doing an RSS reader on a page. Google shows what can be done. The whole lection concentrates on javascript, network access, security restrictions and medium data mangeling. If you have the ability to do any sort of backend programming than AJAX is really neat to do. You can get a lot of good effects with less efforts. A good thing to build on up.