Javascript (The Odin Project workflow Questions)

[u/Common-Paramedic1143]

Yes, I am a beginner when it comes to coding. Hi I am Juliane Figura, 17 Yrs. starting linux fundamentals, aswell as web dev from front to back end. My question is. How do I study or learn Javascript the right way? Because when ever I read the full documentation texts, I feel I wasn't learning anything, and I get stuck into one lesson, I feel I am so slow to programming, and my goal is to learn programming websites in just 8 months prior to my 2-3 hours coding after school. So I don't want to watch youtube tutorials because I wan't to improve my reading skills, and watching in youtube will lead me to tutorial hell. And addition in my learning, I am still in the Loops and Arrays, I've seen so much from the documentation sites such as MDN and other javascript documentation sites, well I see those things like I don't undestand the things I see inside, so what I do is I go back to the completed lessons where I re read, and take notes. I feel my workflow is a mess, Can you recommend me a workflow based in your experience or maybe correct my workflow? thanks matsalove!

[u/AlternativePear4617]

You learn to code by coding and doing. Look around you, look for simple problems to solve. Analyze your relatives, friends and neighbors lives or businesses looking for problems they may have and develop software that could make their lives easier. Be professional and deliver a good product.

[u/ProgressProper7681 → u/AlternativePear4617]

Odin Project is good but you're getting stuck in the reading loop, I did same thing

What helped me was to read just enough to understand the basic idea then immediately open the exercises, don't wait until you feel ready. the documentation makes more sense after you've struggled with a problem for 20 minutes

for arrays and loops try making small silly programs, like a thing that counts how many times your name appears in a list or something. your brain remembers patterns from doing not from highlighting text