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Hey there! I recently released the second edition of my book, The Angular Tutorial, and I thought I’d share the free preview of the updated version here for anyone who’s interested in learning Angular - especially if you’re interested in learning automated testing.

The book takes an approach that I believe is much different than what you usually find in programming books. It’s not a technical manual or reference. It’s a course that simulates how I’ve worked as a front-end developer on the job at startups, Fortune 500 companies, digital agencies, an angel investment fund, and now as a freelancer. As one reader said it’s, "a sparkling gem sitting in the corner of the room...it deserves better!"

In the book you’ll be provided an API and learn how to set it up along with a local database so you’re constantly developing against a real API rather than mocking HTTP requests and responses. You'll learn to leverage 3rd party APIs like Zomato, Google Places, and open-source libraries rather than building everything from scratch. You’ll learn unit testing and end-to-end testing using Jasmine and Cypress. Finally, you’ll deploy your finished application to the web using Heroku.

I’ve received nothing but positive feedback so far about the book both on Amazon and through email (you can read some reviews on the site) and all customers get a 6 month money back guarantee.

I quit my job over a year ago to work on this book full-time and I’ve been working on it and freelancing ever since. I hope you’ll check it out and I’m happy to answer any questions you have for me here :)

I think the best approach is watch one or more videos to get yourself oriented then dig into the books.

Videos: https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-guide-to-angular-2 is the best I've seen so far then build the project in Angular University. However, the editing of AU rather sucks at times and is confusing, but it does force you to solve problems due to poor editing and I found that helpful in learning this stuff. AU has a few places where you finish with the code in one lesson and the next one starts with different code in the same file and rolls on. In other places code is changed but not shown in the video so you have to figure that out. BS for teaching but pretty good for learning the skills for the real world.

Books: ng-book-2 is what a lot of us are using. They do a great job of keeping it current with new versions. After all that then try https://smile.amazon.com/Angular-Development-TypeScript-Yakov-Fain/dp/1617293121/. It is usually well behind in updating even before launch but has a good project to build.

This class on udemy is great, it covers absolutely everything about angular. https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-guide-to-angular-2/

Other than that if you want a strong understanding of the fundamentals you should invest some time in studying Object Oriented Programming and design patterns built on OOP. For instance angular uses the Decorator and the Observable patterns heavily. A good book on this is Head First Design Patterns, though it uses java code it may still help. It has a lot of pictures and psuedo code puzzles
https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Brain-Friendly/dp/0596007124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518933015&sr=8-1&keywords=head+first+design+patterns

Just think of these design patterns as mental tools, along with a little bit of coding syntax, that will help you elegantly handle more complex problems in your code. Using TypeScript lets you put all of the tools in that book to use.

It has been available for free on Amazon for a while. I downloaded it last night. If you prefer going the Amazon route and having it saved to your account:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9S0CZN/

I'm currently using this book and I am really enjoying it.
Angular 2 Development with TypeScript https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617293121/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_npRUzb66XEKGT

Then read The Clean Coder

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-MEAN-Mongo-Express-Angular/dp/1617292036 If anyone has read this book, please let me know what you think about it. It seems to be the best of the bunch for a beginner... but it only covers Angular 1.

Check out Angular 2 Cookbook, of which I am the author. Something new I tried for this book is that every example has an accompanying page on a companion site that gives you links to the working examples on Plunker, and also the source code on GitHub. The companion site has no login, and is free to use.

I'd say if you want to do it right then this book will show how

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496679937&sr=8-1&keywords=clean+code