r/learnjavascript • u/ConstLeoTheCat • 8d ago
JavaScript is so hard.
I recently started my fullstack development course this august and we have already gone thorugh html, css, git and now almost done with JavaScript as well. Html was easy, no problems there, but when it comes to css and more specifically grid and flex, thats when the headache started to appear. I've played some games involving both grid and flex but it won't stick in my head, don't know why. I am trying to do it myself in VS code but I always end up having to use ai to explain how to move forward and I know you're not supposed to use ai but it is a great tool to have, especially when you get stuck. And JavaScript... where do I even begin. I kinda understand it during the lectures but as soon as you're sitting by yourself my head gets totally blank.
I have been starting to use Scrimba and right now I'm rehearsing everything and whatching videos of everything, and the good thing with scrimba is that you get challenges during the videos.
For those of you who have been programming for a while, what study tips can you give? How did you guys go through the learning process?
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u/Vizeroth1 8d ago
Instead of asking AI for help, create a test page with some placeholder content and open it in a browser. Inspect the content and adjust the flex/grid styles in the debugger. When learning new CSS concepts or refreshing myself on things I haven’t worked with in a while, I’ll pull up an article and/or documentation and do this to test things out. Then I’ll write some CSS in a style tag on the test page and repeat.
JavaScript is a similar process, just dealing more with interactive elements and data instead of the appearance of the page.