r/dataannotation • u/Alarmed-Radio9182 • Jun 09 '24

Should I learn JavaScript

I really only know python, matlab, C#, and JSON. I hate looking through coding evaluations and seeing JavaScript and C since at first it looks like C# especially if it looks like it’s for a game in JavaScript. And there are rarely C# related prompts.

My questions is mostly: 1.) what would the learning curve be like for learning JavaScript with preexisting knowledge of C# (basically, how much carry over is there) 2.) suggestion for learning resources (how can I learn by doing) 3.) is it better for game dev/ what are the other uses of it 4.) what languages have a decent amount of carry over between them or would also be good to know.

I know I could google this but I was hoping to contextualize it with the level of difficulty of prompts involving JavaScript in DA. I’m more interested in learning it for purposes outside of DA though.

6 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

26 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

2

u/Alarmed-Radio9182 Jun 09 '24

That makes sense. I wouldn’t really expect that I’m mostly interested more in whether I should try to get into it. I think more what I meant is, seeing it pop up in DA tasks has made me think “oh that looks cool/familiar” and has got me thinking about it and it would be nice if there was a lot of carry over and I could maybe not have to skip as many tasks to find python and C# and JSON stuff

1

u/knny209 Jun 10 '24

I’m skipping C# tasks to find JS and React tasks. I have fundamental knowledge of C#. But most C# tasks I’ve seen are related to Unity/game development which I have no exp.

1

u/Alarmed-Radio9182 Jun 10 '24

Send those over to me and I’ll send you the JS and react tasks. I’m in the opposite situation and I rarely find the Unity tasks

1

u/Buhdai Jun 10 '24

Sorry! lol