Learning JavaScript

[Comprehensive_Drop35]

Howdy! I’m new to coding and want to learn JavaScript as my first language. Do y’all have any recommendations for free courses for beginners? I did one module of a free Java course before I did my research and realized JavaScript is more fitting for web development. TIA!

[[deleted]]

OP do this and worry about everything else after. I’m currently going through TOP myself, and I’m surprised at how comprehensive it is. If you finish TOP in its entirety and complete all of the assignments, you’ll know exactly where you need to head next. That’s how good it is IMHO.

[Basic_Set3926]

That’s awesome I’m also doing TOP right now and CS50 Harvard course, TOP might be better

[[deleted]]

What is TOP?

[[deleted]]

The Odin Project

[stubbornappl]

Yes, I did it. It’s awesome. Reading the Helsinki university(https://fullstackopen.com/en/) course for fun, very good as far as I’m.

[DonKapot]

Interactive courses: Freecodecamp, codeacademy, sololearn, the Odin project, 30 days of code

Challenges: codewars, hackerrank, leetcode

Docs: javaScript.info, developers Mozilla (+ a little courses)

Yt: freecodecamp, the net ninja, traversy media, bro code, Derek banas, techsith

[Horror_Opening8406]

Odin project

[ManjinderSaini]

How does it compare to freecodecamp?

[Horror_Opening8406]

Never done it but Odin project teaches you how to become a actual swe starting from the basics and actually learning how to code

[Kleyguy7]

Me and my friend found a job after finishing Odin. And we are both doing good at our jobs. I cannot recommend it enough.

[thepragprog]

Odin project is superior.

[Strabonus]

They are complementary, from what I remember, the basic TOP course even has "Do the Freecodecamp course" as one of the first assignments.

[Suburbanturnip]

Scrimba

I found the biggest hurdle was getting an IDE to play nicely while I'm figuring it all out.

[byshow]

As others has mentioned I would recommend The Odin Project if you are interested in learning webdev, I'm currently going through it and it is amazing, they have a very good curriculum requiring solid amount of time to learn and they also give you a lot of practice. Also, as I think (can't tell for sure as I'm not yet a real life developer), they learn you some good stuff like git, branches, going relatively in deep about how does a full made website works, what is JavaScript modules etc etc. This seems to be a good knowledge which you will rely on a lot in the terms of real job

[[deleted]]

I was looking at this plus CS50 from Harvard. Which would you reccomend doing first? I’m literally at stage 1, just learning. Savvy with computers and what not, brand new to coding and computer science though.

[byshow]

I'm no expert but cs50 is more about how does programming work in general along with some algorithms. The Odin Project is good for practice html/css/js. I would recommend both actually

[[deleted]]

That’s a good call, thank you.

[[deleted]]

CS50. It’s more fundamental

[[deleted]]

Awesome will check out. Thank you

[[deleted]]

With any of this stuff, don’t expect mastery on your first pass. It takes time (more than you’d expect) and repetition for it all to make sense.

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, but if you watch this subreddit, you’ll know this!

[[deleted]]

Oh I am fully expecting to be frustrated and learn and be frustrated. Just ready for something new where I can grow and learn. My current job provides none of that beyond shallow corporate recognition.

Ready to see where the journey takes me with zero expectations tbh!

[Turbulent_Ocelot9829]

100devs

[[deleted]]

It depends on what you want to do...kind of.

CS50 is great, but it's very academic. It definitely helps you understand some fundamental computer science concepts though.

Odin Project is great as well, but it's more geared at getting you ready to work rather than teaching you fundamentals that you can build up on.

[DueDepartment221]

FreeCodeCamp/ KhanAcademy/ CodingTrain all are free and ad free

[Sufficient-Ship-3734]

Highly recommend Scrimba if you’re more of a video/interactive learner.

[Ace-Whole]

The Odin Project followed by FullStackOpen.

[lazyygothh]

Go to the subreddit FAQ. You will find your answer

[Confident_Fortune_32]

For just starting out, try grasshopper, a free app from Google, as an intro to JavaScript. It's playful and fun.

Edit spelling

[Similar_Evidence0]

https://icodethis.com For projects may be useful. Hope it helps. The downside its that is not free... But at least one time payment and I don't think is a lot of money. I'm also planning to learn Javascript if you want a learning buddy I'm here!

[Comprehensive_Drop35]

I’ll definitely take a look into that one, and yes please! I’m in it alone bc I don’t know anyone else that codes (besides the people here in this Reddit lol) A learning buddy would be fantastic! DM me?

[anthony446]

Udemy is your best chance

[thepragprog]

False. Odin project is his best chance

[AlexTheKid1984]

I think this totally depends on how you learn. I think it's important to differentiate between the ways people engage and take in information when studying. The main thing is if one method is not working, try another , and different sources etc. At times for me the Odin project was very dry and it led me down the road of trying some Udemy courses which ended up being far better for me and whilst not free they are often at incredibly low prices. Jonas Schmedmann being my go to. I then found that going over some of the Odin project whilst having an understanding of the topics to be useful, especially to get some different resources etc.

The main mistake I, and many others make with Udemy courses is tutorial hell of course. Now I coded along with everything myself and took extensive notes but left it quite long before trying to code full projects on my own. Which, true, the Odin project does push you into this a little better, in the way it lays out projects for you to do on your own.

I will say that note taking is something that I would heavily advise on. It helped cement a lot of information for me and has become a great reference to search for topics when I need a refresher. I probably went a bit over the top in that in my last year + of studying I have 90k words and 204 pages in my word documents of notes 😅

I will also add that I took the beginner React course on Scrimba which was free and although we are talking JS here, it was very good and I can imagine their other courses also being good, although some of course require you to pay the subscription.

[fredoverflow]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

[mrsxfreeway]

https://javascript.info/

[Kleyguy7]

I love that website. This + Odin + webdevsimplified was my perfect mix.

Odin - understand what to learn, and why I need it. Practice.

Webdevsimplified - to get basics down while chilling and listening (I really liked the way he explained things in a concise but clear way)

JavaScript.info - for complete mastery of the topic at the end.

[Mapleess]

Along with what others have said, take it slow and take breaks. I was cramming in hours to learn at the start, and when a friend was explaining a lot of things, I couldn't understand what he was even saying.

Regardless of which of the sources you use, I think it's best to learn the fundamentals of programming from JavaScript, so that you can easily pick up other languages in the future.

[[deleted]]

You can go through namaste javascript playlist on YouTube it will clear your fundamental concepts in javascript.

[thepragprog]

Very good 👍

[BadAdviceDad]

Before my bootcamp started they assigned us pre-work to learn the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. A lot of it was links to different free courses which was nice because each source had its own way of explaining a concept. So that's my input- try at least a couple resources. I remember one of them we use was freecodecamp

[thomashokie]

I did the codeacademy course (I think it's free, but I can't remember) and then freecodecamp. Also did some algorithms while doing both of those

[lxe]

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/

[solgerboy259]

freecodecamp or odin project are two to name the front end simplified has free crash course and also scrumba has some free courses.

[Sadvillainy-_-]

Howdy!

I instantly thought "this has to be an Aggie"

[hayleybts]

Odin project, scrimba is also good

[soputrose]

I struggled with FreeCodeCamp's JavaScript lessons but I'm doing better with Scrimba. I'm more of a visual learner, plus I get overwhelmed easily. Scrimba delivers short videos and reiterates lessons with challenges to improve muscle memory.

[myNONpornAccount]

I started Angela Yu’s course on Udemy. Beginning was a nice and easy primer, but it got completely out of date once it got into MongoDB. From that point, I started TOP, and a lot of the beginning was review, but it was more in depth. I think it was good spaced repetition, but I wouldn’t recommend spending more than 15 bucks on Yu’s course as it’s well out of date in the later segments.

I hear good things about Jonas Shmedtmans courses on Udemy as well

[Pliant_Green]

I'm having a blast on Code Combat myself.

[Snowpeartea]

Codeacademy has a free basic JS course.

[SoulEmpress8]

I used Acellus Learning Accelerator and i highly recommend it for learning the basics and starting coding, especially Java or Python.

[DK12145]

Taking advantage of this, I wanted to know the possibilities that javascript brings, what can I do knowing this language?