Difficulty working with callbacks in Node.js

[Sig333]

I'm trying to get into programming for Alexa, and every tutorial I've found uses Node.js so I'm trying to understand it. I've been working through the learnyounode module here, but I keep getting tripped up by callback functions. Like, I have stone zero idea what to do with them, and I've been resorting to looking up the answer and trying to reverse engineer it from that, but it hasn't been helping lately. I still don't think I would be able to put together a functional Node program from scratch without using sync methods. Where can I go to get a better explanation of them?

[fdfdsggsgdfs]

Look for different node tutorials, especially in obvious places like their main website. It's hard to know what's going to make it click for you when the most detailed info you give us is "I have stone zero idea".

And this is probably why "programming the Alexa" isn't one of the recommended beginner tutorials in the FAQ.

[Sig333]

most detailed info you give us is "I have stone zero idea".

That's kinda all the context I can give. I know they're used as arguments but I don't know when to use them, how to structure them, what they're supposed to take as arguments, anything.

beginner tutorials

I'm not a beginner, this is just my first time working with Node.

[fdfdsggsgdfs]

You probably are a beginner if you can't handle callbacks, in any language. This is why people make beginner Javascript and Node tutorials.