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JavaScript

Posted by juan reyna
juan reyna
4,907 Points

Java Scripts Foundations

Honestly i took this course (Java Scripts Foundations) as i wanted to learn about web design, it was higligthed on the web designer track, but i feel the course should be more applied with practical examples applied with to web pages, instead of using names, or numbers, and just the JS console, it should be directly done to examples for web pages as it happened with css and others deep dives. Im not developer so maybe that's why im saying this, and probably im wrong, but my point is just this course gets too difficult at the end and i think wasn't that practical for web design and it's purposes, it's just my opinion and maybe it could work for the threehouse to improove. Mabe in future i can see what i made it for...but for web designer i think is too difficult, i totally respect what developers do. thank you

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

The javascript foundations course lays the foundation for you to understand the concepts used in the javascript project - Build an interactive website. If you do that project you will learn how to incorporate javascript into your site, which is what I think you are looking for.

A lot of the "foundation" courses dont really use practical examples, but simple examples the easily illustrate the necessary concepts. The actual project courses are where these concepts are applied in practice.

juan reyna
juan reyna
4,907 Points

yep ill tr the project now maybe i can understand it better

Mårten Björk
Mårten Björk
3,776 Points
Mårten Björk
Mårten Björk
3,776 Points

I've been a freelance web designer for 5+ years, and my advice is this: Take time to learn the foundations of JavaScript. I'm the kind of person who likes to skip the boring stuff (foundations) and hacking things together right away. However, this is a mistake. You'll spend lots of time debugging stupid mistakes that you could have avoided by taking a few hours to learn the foundations early on. So, do yourself a favor and learn all the boring details that the "Javascript foundations" course teaches – that's what I should have done.

Design these days is much less about Photoshop and more about knowing programming really well. If you want to design a responsive slideshow for instance, you need to know exactly how events, functions and variables works.

juan reyna
juan reyna
4,907 Points

your totally right marten, it's just very frustating sometimes, and hard to master it.... i did the java script foundations but at the end i wasnt understanding it too much with all those formulas, as u say i like to think mor ein colors and shapes... ill try to do the project building an interactive site so maybe i can understand it better and its purposes, thanks anyway