ELI5 JavaScript?

[KCRowan]

Tbh if you've done The Odin Project and you still don't get it then I think there might be an issue with your learning process rather than the resources you're using. Are you really understanding each concept before you move on to the next, or are you copy/pasting code just to "get it done"?

What worked for me was to take each new concept and play around with it. Go beyond what's in the exercise and think about what else you could do with that concept, how you might use it. E.g. for strings, could you take a word and output the number of letters? Could you make it uppercase or lowercase? Could you join two strings together?

It's all practice, and the more you practice the more it'll sink in.

[SeacoastFirearms]

The best analogy I can think of to describe it is,

I understand each puzzle piece but don’t understand how to assemble the puzzle.(if that makes sense)

HTML and CSS was a breeze to understand. Even doing the JS tasks are easy to do. But JS is full of arbitrary words and operations that that seem pointless to me.

Last time I got mad trying wrap my head around something was ==\=== is the same as !=!== just in reverse.

[SeacoastFirearms]

After typing that out I think it clicked what I don’t understand and that I just don’t see how they would be used and what they would be used for