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I was totally wrong about learning JavaScript last year
I spent 6 months only doing HTML and CSS because everyone said JS was too hard for beginners. Then in March I finally forced myself to open a tutorial and it clicked way faster than I thought. The first thing I built was a simple to-do app that took me 4 days of trial and error. Now I look back and realize I wasted half a year being scared of nothing. What was the thing that made you finally jump into a new language or framework?
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norag6622d ago
Tbh the real game changer for me wasn't even a language, it was realizing I could just straight up copy code from other projects to learn. Like I spent months trying to memorize syntax and then one day I just opened up someone's GitHub repo, copied their todo app logic line by line into my editor, and started breaking it on purpose to see what happened. That hands-on destruction/rebuild cycle taught me more in a weekend than all the tutorials combined. Nobody mentions that you dont need to write everything from scratch to understand it.
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hayes.jake22d ago
Wait isn't copying code without understanding the fundamentals just gonna build bad habits though? Like yeah you can break stuff and learn but if you don't know why things work in the first place you're just memorizing patterns not actually learning the logic behind them.
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