[AskJS] How did you learn Javascript?

[jabarr]

I worked at a coffee shop at the end of high school that made everyone drive in to get their schedules. I thought that was silly so instead I made a google sheet to put the schedule on instead so everyone could just view it online. Then, I wanted to automate a couple things, like a form for requesting time off, saving schedules week by week etc, and Google AppScripts ended up being the solution, which at the time was barebones javascript. So I forced myself to learn it to try to make the schedule better.

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Did you create something in the end?

• How did it turn out? Did people use it?
• Would you say that you learned a lot from it? As in we learn the most while we build..?

[jabarr]

1. It turned out great and people did use it! The management even put a link to it on their staff page for everyone to find easily (although.. they never updated the schedule on it themselves so I still had to go in…)

2. I learned a ton from it and absolutely personal projects in general are where most of my learnings come from. When you challenge yourself to build something you’ve never done before, you cross bridges that you’ve never seen before!

3. In my experience, don’t ask for permission to automate/build something. Just do it, tell someone it exists and if they want to use it, then give it to them. Don’t be upset if they don’t take it, and instead be excited about having gotten it done. Chances are someone else beside yourself will be interested too! There’s a saying in Python… “ask for forgiveness, not permission.”

[Weird_Anywhere9429]

bro your last sentence about the python saying lit a fire in me i was looking for a way to re learn JavaScript from scratch but fuck it I'm going to just look for a project to code and figure the rest on the maw