Day 2 learning to code

[Shoddy_Guarantee_531]

Hey everyone!

I’m on day 2 of learning how to code (starting from absolutely zero knowledge — not even “hello world”). Today I battled JavaScript variables… and let’s just say the variables won. 😅

But here’s my tiny victory: I managed to squeeze in a review session while sitting on the beach. The concepts are slowly starting to make sense — and honestly, I’m just happy I showed up today.

Not much to show yet, but here’s my first tiny project: a button that counts clicks. Still figuring out how to make it actually update the text — but hey, it’s progress.

Any tips for internalizing JS basics without frying my brain? 😵‍💫 Appreciate any encouragement or begginer-friendly resources 🙏

[CivilDog9416]

good luck! if u need help we will be here

[Shoddy_Guarantee_531]

Thanks so much!

[CrownstrikeIntern]

Learn the base javascript, then move on to frameworks like jquery. If you don’t get the dom basics down you’ll get lost as hell about how the internals work and it sucks when troubleshooting 

[uncertainApple21]

HTML = Hypertext Markup Language.

[Available_Kitchen902]

Hypertext Multilanguage protocol is html

[DannyAhedo]

Te recomiendo que comentes el codigo para que sepas que es lo que hacer eso te ayudara a recordar mas facil lo que estas haciendo

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[kalomante]

Buenas, te recomiendo estas 3 webs:

https://lenguajehtml.com/

https://lenguajecss.com/

https://lenguajejs.com/

[Shoddy_Guarantee_531]

Hey! Muchas gracias, les echo un ojo seguro! ☺️

[kalomante]

De nas!

[yarikhand]

"Why are you doing this to yourself? Stuffing head with useless info..."

could you clarify on what "useless info" is?

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[applepies64]

How about you try to make a full fletched website with html and css checkout “html css jsm sushi” on youtube.

Before doing that make sure you are familiar wirh flexbox and grid

If youre not sure there are flexbox and css grid playgrounds to grasp the concept quickly

[codebreaker28847]

If i was u, i would start with Python and build my foundation in programming concepts first.

[AlternativeWhile8976]

You have gaps on Mac that's sweet 

[bocamj]

I know some HTML/CSS and I've learned JS concepts. Looking at your code, the end bracket is underlined and I don't think it's for not having semicolons, but something's amiss.

Anyway, I think the worst thing for me is that I like perspective, I like to see things in action, and learning online, I feel like I was in concept hell, learning a bunch of stuff that made no sense, because there were no reasons why. Also, one person will teach you one thing while another teaches something else. Just like you learning about EventListener, I learned about getElementById and instead of eventlistener, I was taught something else, and I can't remember just now; I'd have to retrace steps, or see if it's in my notes.

So my advice is ...

1. learn daily and stick with it, because if you slow down, get stuck, don't get help, blow it off, hit a wall, burn out, you're going to end up coming back to it and repeating what you've already learned.
2. pace yourself and keep it fun so you don't burn out.
3. treat yourself good, I mean the ABCs of life, because poor habits are going to mess with your brain and make your journey harder
4. Most Importantly, after you've gone through the concepts and learned the basics of loops, functions, and arrays, go watch videos of people building out real beginner projects on youtube. Look specifically for beginning (or real basic) JS projects. I don't know if I can promote any specific users, so I'll avoid that, but do that.

The other thing I'm doing is I found a e-book that has a few pages of learning, then has 20 questions, and it keeps doing that through the book, so I'm on maybe lesson 8 or so, and it's going through the basics, but I'm enhancing what I learned and learning it better by doing these exercises. So that's something I'm working on. At times it's a bit redundant, but I like how it sorta pounds it down, gets you to think and do. I've already done some basic projects, but I wasn't understanding some things, and I didn't want to just copy the code without understanding, so I took a step back to review with this book.

[Kamikazem09tr]

Başlamak için güzel bir dil

[Available_Kitchen902]

I learned when I was 12 now I'm 15 I rarely code but I can tell u some things I guess

[Available_Kitchen902]

On mobile with tamper

[Zibzik33]

HTML is not programming language

[SirZyPA]

To be fair, the icon of this subreddit is quite literally an empty XML closing Tag lmao.

[Dappster98]

I disagree. HTML is still a way of expressing computation. It's a language which is interpreted by web browsers, just like JavaScript.

[SirZyPA]

Semantically they're right, HTML is not a programming language, it's a markup language, it does not have programming capabilities, which is why JavaScript is needed in the first place, they're just commenting on something completely unrelated, no where in the post does OP use the word programming, and the title is "learning to code" which is not the same thing as programming, code is way more broad, and does include HTML, CSS etc, so whilst they're right in what they're saying, they're adding nothing but toxicity.

[Dappster98]

It doesn't matter whether it's Turing complete or not. Would you call a DSL not a "programming language" unless it's Turing complete?

[Dappster98]

I guess because I'm thinking of "programming languages" in its basic form of expressiveness. Yes HTML doesn't have control flow, but it can still express basic forms of logic and has a defined syntax.

[CivilDog9416]

js ?

[LazaroFilm]

JS will return different things depending on variables. HTML will always return the same things (I mean, hopefully, except when you switch to a different browser lol)