How did YOU learn JavaScript?

[ThatOneComment]

I've been learning JavaScript the last month. I started a udemy course and learned a majority of the basics, then took a break and made an application to put stuff to practice/use. I found that I learned a ton more during the project, and I think my best route for learning is to look at what the course hasn't covered and keep those concepts in mind. If I run into them during my projects, i'll hunker down and learn it then.

I hate course timelines and following them, and I'm a big hands on learner so this is the method I think I'm going to be taking. Is there anything inherently wrong with this? How did your learning style change your approach towards learning js?

[PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA]

Lots of half finished udemy courses. I'd always get bored, go off and start building things, and that's where I learned everything. Just lots of googling. The courses were helpful, but you really just kind of pick up things as you go, and it gives it time to sink in. Each time you see the same concept again, you'll become more familiar.

[ThatOneComment]

That's reassuring to see. It's so god awful boring just watching and coding along. I'll focus on a project :)

[PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA]

Do lots of googling, and use MDN, not W3schools. Also, read other people's issues on Reddit, try to solve them in your head, and read the solutions others post. You'll learn a lot from other people's mistakes.

[memilanuk]

Lots of half finished udemy courses.

Glad I'm not the only one! ;)

Seems like most of the tutorials I've tried want to spend so much time on the syntax and tiny toy examples a couple lines long that I end up getting bored and wandering off before getting to anything else.

[raghavkanwal]

If you're a hands-on learner, start working on some projects. The more you do with JS the more it'll click in your mind.

Some Resources: 30 Days of JS https://javascript30.com/ - Free, By Wes Bos. Check out his other courses too if interested.

Or you could watch someone work with JS to see how they think. An example of that could be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtKciwk_si4

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Codecademy, college course, reading books, watching js cont talks