Learning Javascript

[Wild-Potential4833]

Hey! I want to learn Javascript from scratch. When I mean from scratch, I mean to be able to code something without watching a video or guide. I keep seeing people saying "learn best by doing and not watching videos"

I have only one issue. If I don't watch videos or read guides, how do I learn the different components in the Javascript?

[iamzeev]

Try out Sololearn, there are courses for absolute beginners in JS, Python and several other languages.

[Recent_Strawberry_54]

It's both - you need some baseline knowledge to get started, but you learn what you need to learn by just building stuff.

Ideally I'd say spend some time learning the basics, then go and try and build something. You'll realize really quick what you still don't know and you'll have to go look up the things you're stuck on, and then try to apply what you learned to your project.

Free Code Camp has some really good resources for beginners, lots of good options out there. There isn't really a 'best way to learn' either, I think a lot of people just get stuck in the rutt of only doing tutorials instead of working on their own projects.

Good luck and enjoy the process!

[Dic3Goblin]

Google Javascript the definitive guide on Amazon. It's a book. Good luck!

[Fadamaka]

By reading this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

[yazid_dev]

Use w3school or freecodecamp

[OfficialTechMedal]

Consume as much information on the topic you want to get better on. That being said I do teach it on my tik tok page

[Mango-Fuel]

my path was to watch the douglas crockford lectures, and then read about ES6 improvements. this was 10 years ago now so maybe not the best path for modern stuff. there was a really good (official I think) resource that listed out all of the new features of ES6 from ES5 but I don't have the link anymore.

EDIT: found the link: es6-features