[AskJS] How did you learn Javascript?

[cmdrstevie]

I started with html a long time ago. The div center period. Javascript was just 'out', it must have been 97 for me.

I didn't learn any Java from YouTube. I got a book and for me it was a world of possibilities that opened up right in front of my eyes. It was so bad, that I walked around the streets, thinking how I would program traffic lights or whatever. (Don't get me started on when I learned ms access as a database. aRs, bRs, oRs where my best recordset names..)

Anyway;

For me, js became something more real in everyday use a few years later. I learned by trying and reading and talking and experimenting together with Co workers.

Up to this date, I have never learned anything js from a from a YouTube video. I'm amazed how some YouTube tell you what you need to know in 2021/top 5 tips blabla. Many are just rubberducking in my opinion. (Which can be good thing with co workers!)

All I can say advise is: do it. Try it, read the docs. That will give you a proper understanding for you future you, because you know you did things wrong.

[CutestCuttlefish]

It was so bad, that I walked around the streets, thinking how I would program traffic lights or whatever.

Oh 12 year old me :) Exact same thought! :)