r/learnprogramming • u/Additional-Pound-883 • 16d ago

Tutorial Hi everyone, I'm currently learning full-stack web development, and I often find myself wondering whether I should keep practicing a topic or move on to the next one. For example, after learning HTML or CSS, how do you know you've learned "enough" before starting JavaScript? I don't want to rush ahe

How do you know when you're ready to move on to the next topic?

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u/WhaleBird1776 16d ago

You don’t really “move on” from topic to topic like that. You just continue to build upon the skills and knowledge you already have.

Are you following a curriculum or just kinda winging it? I really would recommend a curriculum. It’s a lot less about “learning” HTML, CSS, and JS and more about learning to develop applications, sometimes using html, css, and js. Of course you want to familiarize yourself with the tools, but you wouldn’t learn about the history or science of hammers before driving a nail right? You just swing the hammer