How to Teach Yourself Javascript Video Lecture - IT & Software

Can you tell me how to teach yourself Javascript?
There are tons of online tutorials to give
you a good overview of the subject.
That might be enough to give me the basics.
But when I search for JavaScript resources,
half of them are for jQuery.
jQuery is a subset of JavaScript.
Is that like HTML and HTML5?
One is a later version of the other?
No. jQuery is the set of JavaScript libraries
related to multi-media presentations, animation
and event handling.
So it is specific to web design.
Yes, and if someone is looking to learn JavaScript
for basic web design plus interactive media,
they learn jQuery.
How can I go about learning that, too?
jQuery is easy.
Save a website with the features you want
to learn about to your computer, then view
the code.
That will show me the HTML files.
It can also show you the JavaScript code.
Better yet, you can modify it and tinker with
it before displaying it again to learn the
effects the changes have.
Probably a bunch of error messages.
There are quite a few books on JavaScript
out there, even if you're not a fan of books
that call you a dummy or an idiot.
I've heard I need to take a programming class.
There are online programming courses in addition
to all the online demos on Youtube.
Or find a few good programmer blogs.
I wouldn't know which sites to trust.
Stackexchange.com and stackoverflow.com are
excellent online forums where you can ask
your questions.
But given how many people have already done
that, search the questions to see if it has
already been answered first.
Then I need to actually get experience.
Create draft web pages and open them in your
browser to see how badly you did.
You're writing in JavaScript, not Java, so
it isn't like a fouled up animation is going
to crash your computer.