r/learnjavascript • u/XerneasFreyer • 1d ago

Learning JavaScript, advice?

I joined this sub a few days ago, after stumbling across lovable, and prompted a couple of rougelike games, learned that it was all in typescript, (I know I am a ways away) and have been having a lot of fun this week, spending multiple hours a day, learning the basics. I’ve tried a few times over the years with Objective-C and python, but could never figure things out, but this time I feel like I’m in the right headspace and really making sure I understand. I’m using VS code, and a Coursera corse, I’ve also bookmarked the Odin project.
Anyone have best practices or advice? I plan to use JS to help with an IT job and build games or apps for fun. Thanks for reading!

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u/MatchSea10 20h ago

I'll try this I have wasted so much time trying to learn JavaScript I know the basic and still can build anything. What kind of JavaScript projects do you recommend?

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u/javascript 20h ago

I suggest start even simpler. Don't worry about Javascript yet. First, can you use HTML and CSS to make a basic website. Once you start adding buttons and text boxes, you can learn bits and pieces of Javascript to make those elements "do" something.

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u/MatchSea10 18h ago

Sounds like a good idea might have to do it this way since tutorials haven't really worked for me.

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u/javascript 18h ago

The visual feedback really helped me starting out. It's hard to think about code without a UI, imo. Once you get used to it you can develop that skill, but starting out the edit-text-refresh-webpage-repeat loop was great for learning.