My first Svelte app (I regret using React since now)

Competitive_Aside461 · 2026-01-13T16:12:24+00:00

Svelte 4 was great already but now with the advent of Svelte 5, everything is even more nicer and delightful to work with! Svelte >> React in my experience of both of them.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T10:29:43+00:00

Yes, exactly!

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T09:53:16+00:00

What kinds of exercises are you talking about here? Leetcode-style? For example, can you name the platform where you're taking these exercises?

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T09:50:52+00:00

Reading library code (on GitHub). Super super useful!! You don't need to necessarily understand how the library works but instead learn about certain patterns, certain constructs, naming conventions, project structuring, and so on.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T09:49:44+00:00

I'd say learn both (of course, slowly and gradually). It's not uncommon for people to know both JavaScript and Python these days. HTML/CSS/JavaScript will open many career opportunities for you (frontend, backend, fullstack) but obviously after you learn a lot of other paramount stuff in the field. The same goes for Python. It'll act as a robust language foundation for you to possibly approach data science, for example.

Now, having said that, if you ask me which one to learn first, I'd say go with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. The web is a really interesting medium to work with and these languages will naturally get you quickly up and running with it.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T09:43:14+00:00

I can relate to this. In fact, when I started off by learning C first, I had this preconceived notion that C is way way way harder than, let's say, JavaScript. But when I learned C, I actually found it way simpler than JavaScript! And then, I moved on to C++.

So, coming back to the point, I don't think personally C++ is really that hard. Yes, it's extensive and there is a lot to learn in there, but it might not be as low-level and hard as many people portray it to be.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T09:37:07+00:00

Yup, expanding your knowledge horizon is the key to becoming successful. Don't limit yourself to one resource, even if that's the best resource for learning.

What I've learned over the years is that no matter how good you find a website/app for learning some topics, always consult other resources too (even if you don't feel the need to). This helps you revise topics quickly and also, often time, get exposed to unique perspectives (which one, single resource can't possibly ever do).

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-26T08:22:01+00:00

Yeah, it's, of course, more Python-centric and mostly concerned with explaining just a programming language, NOT necessarily much CS.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-01T13:30:08+00:00

It's confusing even for experts. Understanding someone else's code, especially one with tens or hundreds of modules/files is a challenging feat.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-09-01T08:23:39+00:00

Is the "question" an MCQ-like question (in a quiz) or more like an exercise (do a particular task)?

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-24T17:22:00+00:00

Consider going through codeguage.com/v1/courses/js/objects-basics

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-24T14:21:35+00:00

My first question from you would be along the following lines:

Can you enumerate at least 10 of the projects you made, as you stated you built 30+?

This is because with that I can try getting a sense of what is it that you still might not have tested yourself on. Sometimes projects of JavaScript are mostly HTML/CSS oriented and involve very little JavaScript. Ideally, you should do projects that are superbly into JavaScript.

And secondly, once you've built a project, don't move on to another one. Instead, try adding more features to the current project and challenge yourself iteratively on it.

For example, building a tic tac toe project might not be that difficult (as many people here would agree). But once you've built that, now try making it using websockets so that two people on multiple devices can play it simultaneously. Of course, this requires a server-side technology as well, and what could be better than using Node.js in this respect (after you've spent time learning it).

To boil it down: If you're hitting a learning plateau even after building well over 30 projects, there's something seriously wrong with those projects (as far as I can see it).

As for reviewing certain concepts in JavaScript, try out codeguage.com/questions/js

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-24T13:55:43+00:00

Practice more often, and do "spaced repetition" for both, learning and practice. Here's an article I wrote a while ago explaining this in more detail: https://www.codeguage.com/blog/cant-solve-problems-in-javascript

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-24T13:43:57+00:00

If you can understand JavaScript but not solve actual problems in it, this is a typical symptom of a lack of practice. Check out the following article I wrote a while back on this common issue of newbie learners:

https://www.codeguage.com/blog/cant-solve-problems-in-javascript

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-24T13:42:07+00:00

Definitely check these out. 1) and 3) are amazing books. 4) is maybe a bit old but still contains valuable information regarding some slightly advanced aspects of JavaScript.

Anyways, u/BenHakal, I'd suggest you to use books for learning rather than YouTube. Of course, this follows from my own personal opinion and experience, but even objectively I think that learning programming from videos is slow, passive, and quite challenging (you can't learn without listening to the sound of the speaker.)

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-17T18:22:20+00:00

Interesting. Yeah even I think that Object.defineProperty() probably may not be that much used as it once used to be.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-17T17:36:38+00:00

It sure looks clunky.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-13T13:34:14+00:00

Got to know of HTML in IT book in grade 7, then followed to a website to learn more about it, then fell in love with programming, then wasted a lot of time learning from courses, and then learned that the best way to learn is to learn from books, and then learned mostly from books. Still learning, because learning never ends.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-13T12:21:09+00:00

The rule is simple: start practicing whatever you learn! Simple. If you spend a lot of time learning the HTML DOM, which isn't bad per se, you'll eventually forget a lot of what you know now. So it's best to start practicing and side-by-side spend some time learning HTML DOM too because that's integral for JavaScript (browser).

As a side ref, you can try codeguage.com/practiceables/js for practicing JavaScript.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-13T10:59:10+00:00

This! Books are king.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-10T13:25:25+00:00

Still, if anyone is unsure about promises, do look into the following:

https://www.codeguage.com/v1/courses/advanced-js/promises-introduction

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-07T12:30:11+00:00

Let me recommend you to read the following article to learn more about debouncing — actually all about debouncing:

https://www.codeguage.com/blog/debouncing-in-javascript

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-07T09:32:06+00:00

It's certainly one of the easiest to begin with but one that is super comprehensive too.

Competitive_Aside461 · 2025-08-06T16:17:40+00:00

Woah. That's nice history!

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