I third Dan's recommendation. I can read books and articles until I'm blue in the face, but I won't ever really understand a concept until I write the code and try it myself. When I first attempted to understand closure in JS, by reading about it, I was very confused. When I sat down and manipulated examples, the light bulb finally turned on. IMO, the best way to learn to code (in addition to reading) is to write code, make mistakes, and then figure out how to correct those mistakes.
- Kai On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:14 PM, bawigga <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to second Dan's recommendation. The thing that helped me the most > was *actually writing code*. Programming is just like any other task in > that to understand it you have to try it, and then keep practicing.The A-HA! > moment will come eventually, and that moment is more than likely going to > happen you write that line of code that makes it all come together. > > -Brian W > > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Dan DeFelippi wrote: > > Beyond all the book and tutorial recommendations, my best > recommendation is to just start writing code! If there's something you > don't quite understand write some code and see what it does. > > If you don't have a good grasp of other programming languages or > computer science concepts, start with the basics. Write some if > statements, loops, functions, etc. Play with objects, arrays, and > other variables. Once you get the basics move on to development > patterns. > > I've always found that when I'm confused by something or don't > understand it actually trying it usually helps more than additional > reading. > > -Dan > > On Dec 14, 12:03 pm, Emeka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > This is not my first time of attempting to understand JavaScript.... I have > > about three books but I still feel there is something lacking in me. I > can't > > even figure out simple stuff. I have played with Clojure/PHP/Python none > > seems like JavaScript. I have not made that shift in reasoning and I have > > not also stumbled on "simple" projects yet to use to learn. I would need > you > > help to make this move. It may be because I am far from being grounded in > > CSS/HTML. I need a path to follow ..... projects to try to hone my > > skill(sorry if this question looks childish) > > > *Regards,* > > *Emeka > > * > > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<jsmentors%[email protected]> > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
