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Edwin Castro
Courses Plus Student 24,037 PointsJavaScript's kicking my you-know-what!!
I'm finding that JavaScript is terribly difficult, however I'm sure that Dave McFarland is doing a great job teaching the material, my hats off to him. I'm thinking it's me and it's not sinking in my head. Are there any other JavaScript material for beginners that I can review in conjunction with 'JavaScript Basics'? This is what I really want to learn in order to get a job at Blizzard in the near future :)
Thanks All
Edwin
2 Answers
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsCodeacademy.com offers a free course on JavaScript (and lots of other free courses) that is fantastic. It is exclusively hands on interactive without videos. I found that going through their course and coming here at the same time were very good compliments to each other.
These websites, in addition to knowing how to utilize the tools you have available to you (such as the web console in Chrome or Firefox), will help you in figuring out JavaScript. I can't tell you how many times I used console.log to log out really random pieces of code to see exactly what they did. The console is powerful and will help you with anything JS related. Get to be friends with it! Spending a lot of time in the console enabled to make some pretty awesome projects that you can see here: http://www.marcusparsons.com/projects
jason chan
31,009 Pointshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkTzHEtHd54&list=PL41lfR-6DnOrwYi5d824q9-Y6z3JdSgQa javascript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNb8T5NBdQg&list=PLA32A377265AF6066 jquery
there are some really good channels on youtube to learn from. But yeah the concepts take a while to take in. Basically, try to ask yourself what does this code do in your own words.
Henrique Teodoro
2,628 PointsHenrique Teodoro
2,628 PointsMan... that's normal, i've been there :P You just need some time to get the JavaScript concepts into your head, you just need a little bit of practice and determination to do it. Understanding JavaScript is like knowing how to play a guitar, after you get it everything that comes will be easy to you. And I think that the 'JavaScript Basics' is the first course you should really take and then move on, this course englobes the true basic concepts of JavaScript so is like the real beginning of it.
Stay Awesome Edwin, you'll get JavaScript, it's just a matter of time :)