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jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

Mind of Fog with Learning

Hi, just thought I would open a discussion here in response to learning Javascript. Now I am experienced in PHP and understand the language quite well. But when it's time to flick back and forth between the two, it can get quite daunting and things I have done with JS in the past I get mind fog where I cannot think.

How do people get over this ? I work as a developer and this burden pops up atleast once a week :)

2 Answers

While everyone is different one of the best things I have learned is to take frequent breaks throughout the day.

Full eight hours of sleep(when possible) and lots of water (currently doing the gallon challenge) helps with everything including "fog mind"

Also when you are not coding find something to take your mind off of it.

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

I think the key is to keep practicing but not focusing so much on trying to memorise everything. These things tend to come to you better with practice. (Which means just finding the time among other things in life can the difficult thing. ;)

Also rest assured that most of the concepts you learn in one language can be repeated in another. Hang in there! :)