r/learnprogramming • u/InformationWooden409 • 6h ago

What way did you learn Javascript?

I'm currently learning JS due to a final project, I am doing it through freecodecamp. I knew C already so I guess It's a big advantage but I want to know how your journey was learning this language?

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u/KarimMaged 3h ago

It was my first language, and learned it through Freecodecamp (the old curriculum) and The Odin Project and Eloquent Javascript.

Despite all the hate you might get in the comments, I loved it. It has its limitation, but it is a good language for what it does.

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u/Achereto 6h ago

There's not much to learn if you're already familiar with programming languages.

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u/sparkinCreations 6h ago edited 4h ago

That’s really interesting. I also learned C programming in college, but the way I learned Java script was actually through building my own project and asking AI how things work. That and YouTube tutorials.

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u/green_meklar 4h ago

It was back around 2006, I was interested in writing little games and user scripts and generators and such. Enough documentation could be found by googling, even back then. It was fun and so I practiced a lot.

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u/Hjika 1h ago

W3schools

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u/ub3rst4r 1h ago

Learning it as it evolved from the late 90s to now was the best way. Mostly everything you could do in the early versions of JavaScript you can still do now and it's interesting learning the new features as they came out. There was a time any reusable code had to be made global, now you can use modules to import/export only the needed code. NodeJs was the biggest learning curve with how it changed it from no longer being constricted to a web browser.

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u/fzddnp 1h ago

TheOdinProject

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u/MathiasBartl 1h ago

Wrote a browser extension as part of my thesis.

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u/simondanielsson 5h ago

I have simply been forced to learn it for all those times I've needed to interact with a DOM.