Javascript and therefor Node have some concepts that are often misunderstood by many developers (eg. Java, C#, ... )
I decided to put some basic functionality tests in a visual studio solution, so you can see it all working.
Feel free to add more...
https://github.com/KenVanGilbergen/ken.Spikes.Javascript
Update:
Willy just pointed me to a nice free javascript book collection at https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS