I have been failing to learn JavaScript (🐳) for more than a decade. I've always used the excuse that I am just not technically minded or intelligent enough to grasp JS on a deep enough level; pretty much a cowardly cop out.

So it's time to switch it up.

I'll be using this pinned blogpost to update my progress. This time I hope to manage my fears, remind myself of my motivations, and manage my expectations.

• 👻 Fears: It's too hard, I'll just give up again.
  Solution: Commit to small but regular time blocks. Consistency is key. Just 30mins a day to begin with.
• 🚀 Motivations: The task is so massive, ill never complete it.
  Solution: Time track and keep track of every bit of progress, self motivate with past success.

Learning Material

Udemy course The Complete JavaScript Course 2022: From Zero to Expert!

So far so good. Seems like a fantastic resource and moving at a speed that suits me. Recording progress & mini review.

Time Tracking

lol, kind of the opposite effect right now at 10% done... 🫠

Goals & Projects

1. Understand JS to an intermediate level
2. Produce a vanilla JS webapp
3. Begin to learn React so I can understand what the hell the developers in my company are working on. Particularly Nextjs.

I am a new father of 3 month old, and have less time than ever before. Great time to take on a challenging learning exercise, right? Fuck yeah.

Course Progress

• Section 1: Welcome ✅
• Section 2: JavaScript Fundamentals ✅
  Really great intro to JS! Actually surprised how much good stuff was in this part that I didn't know already. Learnt valuable lessons about equality operators, type coercion, truthy and falsey values, expressions vs statements, ternery operators, template literals.
• Section 3: Javascript Fundamentals 2 ✅
  Loved the intro to functions! Learnt some stuff I should have known a long, long time ago..
• Section 4: How to Navigate This Course ✅
• Section 5: Developer Skills & Editor Setup ✅
  Useful problem solving, debugging, and vscode setup
• Section 6: HTML & CSS ✅
• Section 7: Javascript in the Browser (DOM & Events) ✅
• Section 8: How JavaScript Works Behind the Scenes
• Section 9: Data Structures, Modern Operators & Strings
• Section 10: A Closer Look at Functions
• Section 11: Working with Arrays
• Section 12: Numbers, Dates, Intl & Timers
• Section 13: Advanced DOM & Events
• Section 14: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with JavaScript
• Section 15: Mapty App: OOP, Geolocation, External Libraries
• Section 16: Asynchronous JavaScript: Promises, Async/Await, and AJAX
• Section 17: Modern JavaScript Development: Modules, Tooling & Functional
• Section 18: Forkify App: Building a Modern Application
• Section 19: Setting up Git & Deployment
• Section 20: The End!