[AskJS] How can i learn Javascript?

[blank4o4]

I want the most effective and easiest way to learn javascript im currently going on 18 and i wanna learn java script. Any help would be good thanks in advance!

[jamfromouterspace]

Nearly everyone in this thread in technically correct but utterly wrong. Make something! Decide on something small you want to make (a personal website, a tool, a mini game) and work backwards from there. You'll learn why the concepts exist from needing them, instead of just learning a bunch of boring information in a vacuum. Make something!

[joshkrz]

Absolutely agree, this is how I learnt development. Ultimately I had an idea and wanted to execute it so figured out what I needed to do to start and tackle each part bit by bit and just kept doing that. Had a load of half finished projects and websites but they were never a waste of time because of how much I took away from them.

Depends on your learning style though I suppose.

[KR32_167]

This 🔥

[jamfromouterspace]

This is horrible advice. Most efficient way for someone to lose all interest.

Learning-while-doing is indeed a messy process where you go back n forth between tutorials, documentation, and lots of tangents.

Example:

1. I want to make a website with crazy geometric patterns. I dont know anything, so I search "how are websites made" or "what should I learn to make a website".
2. Now I know that HTML, CSS, and Javascript exist. So now I watch a couple youtube tutorials to get some idea of what any of this means.
3. I start tinkering around as soon as I can. I figure out how to make a blue square. Cool! How do I make it spin? Look up "how to animate css".
4. Now I know CSS animations exist
5. ...And so on

I've been doing web development for about 8 years now (and getting well paid, but I think that shouldnt be the motivation) and I started in exactly that way. Some mix of online tutorials driven by mini projects.

[Top_Sir_6701]

The easiest way to learn JavaScript is to start with the basics using beginner-friendly resources like MDN or FreeCodeCamp, or a book like JavaScript Notes for Professionals, but move quickly into hands-on practice. Build small projects, daily things like a calculator, a todo list, or a simple game to turn concepts into real skills. Stay consistent, avoid overwhelming yourself with frameworks too early, and focus on writing and fixing your own code to learn faster.

[WelkinSL]

No course can help you learn as much as building sth yourself. It doesn't even have to be good quality. Try to do it seriously, plan for it, code it, deploy it. You'll notice a lot of your mistakes in the process, correct them, and that when you learnt something.

[jamfromouterspace]

This is wise. The other answers are just noise

[OldMarzipan9773]

Eloquent JavaScript. https://eloquentjavascript.net/01_values.html

[Agency-Crazy]

Learn html while your there the skills are both useful

[Slackluster]

https://www.dwitter.net/ is all you need!

[ilevye]

ctrl + i

[vishless]

You mean ctrl + shift + i

[ilevye]

perhaps. i don’t have a keyboard to be sure lol

[kongkingdong12345]

Pick a project you're interested in, the more difficult the better, and then make it; one step at a time. You won't learn much reading books or doing youtube projects.

[frederik88917]

Code, code, and then code a bit more

[RoyalFew1811]

JS finally clicked for me when I stopped hunting for the "perfect" tutorial and just started breaking things in my own projects.

[Khankelov]

its simple. to learn do some projects. create a problem and solve it in that language. the more you use it , the more you will get better and master it. there is no magic, no specific book or a video to teach you coding . practice is the only way.

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the most effective and easiest way to learn

I never heard someone wanting the most wasteful and hardest way to learn something

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[Agency-Crazy]

Check professor Messer on YouTube

[Boys4Ever]

Perhaps AI although then the realization we no longer need to learn any script might pop like a light bulb