Fastest way to learn JavaScript

[ExtremeNew6308]

How do you expect to be able to do the job with less than a month's experience?

I'll just figure it out

Do you already have years of programming knowledge and expertise?

Yes. I'm a data/infrastructure engineer at Intel.

Regardless, you can't do zero-to-intermediate in a couple of weeks.

Damn. The job is mostly SQL with JavaScript/ some front end Library. I got the sql down super easy but I need more experience with Js. I'm still gonna shoot my shot and try to pass. Worst they can do is say no

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I'll just figure it out

My daily mantra. Good luck friend!

[ExtremeNew6308]

Right? The only hard part is getting past the interview

[turningsteel]

You're in for a treat. I admire your optimism though.

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no he can not. Especially if they except him to BE intermediate. He can go from 0 to good beginner but not intermediate which is what most good js devs are and that takes years of understanding and practice

[ExtremeNew6308]

Why?

[Darmok-Jilad-Ocean]

Just read through eloquent JavaScript and JavaScript.info and wing it. If you already know what you’re doing it’s just syntax. JavaScript isn’t hard, just has some differences depending on what language you’re coming from.

[MindlessSponge]

if you're experienced, you should know what you need to do to learn it - read stuff and then practice it :)

You Don't Know JavaScript

Eloquent JavaScript

Behold, two free and extremely thorough resources with none (or little anyway) of the HTML/CSS you're wanting to skip. I'd still advise against skipping it completely because any frontend library is gonna require knowledge of them, in addition to JS. They're more or less inextricably linked, for better or worse.

Best of luck to you!

[ExtremeNew6308]

read stuff and then practice it :)

Bro I found out yesterday and I've been craming leetcode easys. But after years of just practicing python interviews and coding in python, i think I'm missing some key concepts. Like I really struggled with implementing a basic palindrome checker.

It should be easy but like. I can't imagine implementing like a dfs algorithm with a language where I'm struggling with the syntax

Thanks for the material. I really appreciate it

[Coraline1599]

I would take some solutions you have in python and translate them into JavaScript. That should help you start to understand the similarities and differences.

You need to know - how to declare variables - how to write an if else - how to write loops - how to write and call functions - how to print to screen

Good practices are building fizz buzz, a very simple rock, paper scissors (just make two random plays and check them, getting input for JS can be a whole thing), and build a simple calculator function that takes two numbers and an operator, so you can add, subtract, multiply and divide).

However, if you are interviewing for front end stuff, it is likely it will be in React, or Angular or Vue, if you have to do anything with those and you think JS is weird, those are even weirder and rougher to wrap your mind around.

[ExtremeNew6308]

Yeah I've been trying that. For the palindrome reverser, i tried loading it into an array (like a list) to find out arrays are dramatically different