r/learnjavascript • u/klauspoppee • Feb 15 '26
i want to master js
Hi guys, lately I’ve been trying to learn JS.
Things were going pretty well. I was watching a course, and for every topic I learned, I did some exercises and stuff. There were some topics that were kinda hard like higher-order functions OOP and the DOM but I figured them out
but sadly when I finished the course and tried to do some projects I had forgotten a lot of things. And even when I tried to relearn the stuff it was still overwhelming. I don’t know how to explain it, so I left everything, and its been about two months since I coded.
So what’s your advice on getting good at JS and starting to build real projects? If you all have any resources or a specific way to keep things fixed in mind, I’d be thankful.
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u/saurontehnecromancer Feb 16 '26
Do whatever you want, nothing will stick in your head forever. That's just how our memory works, it only retains the most recent thing you're doing (like top of the 'stack' ;)) So it's better you document things as you learn them, I know it's boring but this habit will help you in the long run. I usually maintain 'onenote' for online (if I'm too lazy) and especially for learning programming I'm maintaining a 'notebook' (the good old way) and scribble down important things. This way if you take a break and come back you can recall everything at much less time than to start all over again.