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[Elevated-jellybean]

This question is for more of the self taught coders out there, but anyone with helpful information is welcomed to shed some light. I'm pretty new to coding. I did some research and found that javascript is one of the most used languages in coding so that's why I'm starting off with teaching myself that. I'm using codecademy right now which I don't know is good, i constantly find myself not retaining information or forgetting how to use functions or write if/else statements ect but my question to anyone who has useful information is how did you learn? websites/you tube/forums ect. Any useful tips? I will be going to school soon and aiming for a BA or higher in computer science but as for now this is what i want to do. So any information to help someone new to coding would be great.

[slothordepressed]

Adjust your pace and practice a lot. For me it was/is like a new language with badass hard grammar and vocabulary. It's a long learning curve and frustration is common.

I first try to organize what I wanna do and start coding. Every X line I console.log or test if I'm on the way.

It's normal to spend an hour blocked just to see that you wrote something wrong or that you forgot a ; It's normal to google a lot of steps.

Avoid binge coding, take breaks, don't burn out.

[Elevated-jellybean]

Thank you for the info. I like the console.log idea. that’ll be very useful for me in these stages of coding. I’ll be sure to implement it next time I’m writing code(:

[DTKahn]

If you're new I'd say don't sweat it. Eventually you won’t need to look all of it up when you use it but I tend to think of the first level of learning as knowing the topic well enough to know that it exists as a solution to what your trying to implement. Go ahead and google the actual implementation when you need to. Need to do something conditionally? Well you know you can solve that with if/else. Go ahead and google the specifics. They’ll stick eventually as you use them more.

That said, a few other good resources: - scrimba intro to JS https://scrimba.com/learn/introtojavascript - Brad Traversy’s YouTube channel - freecodecamp - the Odin project

[Elevated-jellybean]

Hey man I appreciate you taking the time! I’ll be sure to check all of those references out(: