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RE: learning javascript - Vi-Sion - 01-22-2017
Actually i think it will be easy .
RE: learning javascript - pvnk - 01-22-2017
(01-22-2017, 08:21 PM)Vi-Sion Wrote: Actually i think it will be easy .Best of luck!
RE: learning javascript - mothered - 01-23-2017
(01-22-2017, 06:37 PM)Vi-Sion Wrote: Well hello friends, i'm just here to ask if i could learn javascript in around 5 days ?
Not possible.
If you're lucky you may "just" scrape through learning the very basics In 5 days- and that's dedicating most of the 120 hours towards your learning. Do It properly and don't set a time-frame. The worst thing you can do, Is try and cram as much Information as possible In a short amount of time. It defeats the purpose. It's not "how much" you can learn, but more so "how effectively" you can learn It.
RE: learning javascript - Pikami - 01-23-2017
You can learn the basic stuff.
If you will thy to learn it in five days, do not drop it after those five days. The thing with learning new languages is that if you learn a language and stop using it, you will forget everything, especialy when you use the language only for a short period of time.
And don't expect to master it in 5 days, if you learn for a long time, you run into problems and that's good because you overcome them and learn all kinds of stuff, if you learn for a short period of time you will not run into some issues and will not know how to overcome them.
Bottom line is that you can learn the basics of a language in 5 days, but it will not be usefull if you don't practice it regulary.
RE: learning javascript - Inori - 01-23-2017
Depends on what part of JS you're learning. If it's Node you're talking about, I think you have a shot at learning most of the core and some of the standard library. Browser, not so much.
As others have said, you can definitely get through the basics, but there's a lot to get through. Even beyond that, there's massive libraries like jQuery to learn.
RE: learning javascript - Vi-Sion - 01-23-2017
It's not that i'm trying to learn a new language, i just want to learn the basics which will be enough for passing my exam .
RE: learning javascript - pvnk - 01-23-2017
(01-23-2017, 04:29 PM)Vi-Sion Wrote: It's not that i'm trying to learn a new language, i just want to learn the basics which will be enough for passing my exam .See how much confusion you caused lol
RE: learning javascript - Vi-Sion - 01-23-2017
Yep, sorry about this
RE: learning javascript - insidious - 01-23-2017
(01-23-2017, 07:26 AM)Pikami Wrote: You can learn the basic stuff.
If you will thy to learn it in five days, do not drop it after those five days. The thing with learning new languages is that if you learn a language and stop using it, you will forget everything, especialy when you use the language only for a short period of time.
And don't expect to master it in 5 days, if you learn for a long time, you run into problems and that's good because you overcome them and learn all kinds of stuff, if you learn for a short period of time you will not run into some issues and will not know how to overcome them.
Bottom line is that you can learn the basics of a language in 5 days, but it will not be usefull if you don't practice it regulary.
This. If you decide to actually learn the language and not just use it to pass your exams, make sure to keep using it.
Learning the basics of JS is entirely possible in 5 days, however. Even more so if you already know a few programming languages. When I'm crash-coursing myself a programming language, I usually hit up Udemy on their '10$' deal days and buy one of those courses. I get ~ 20-25 hour course and binge it in ~3-5 days. That's actually how i learned Javascript + React this break, didn't work out so bad for me and i feel like I have a pretty strong base in JS and React now.
Udemy is good because it adds structure to your learning rather than trying to figure stuff out on your own. With only 5 days, it would be difficult to ponder around and figure out what's going on. If there's structure you can just put on the video, do whatever the guy is demonstrating, maybe a tiny side-project to figure some parts out, take some notes and say "okok I get that, lets move on". The great thing is you can binge this and know you have a strong base once your finished (if you use a course that's highly rated by many people) since you can be fairly certain you covered most if not all of the core-aspects of the language.
With this method it's a given you won't remember everything the guy is teaching, though. And if you don't reinforce the concepts you will quickly forget them. That's why it's important to continue using the language afterwards to cement it in your memory. Human brains simply don't work like SSD's or HDD's, as much as we would want them too.
Goodluck!
RE: learning javascript - mothered - 01-24-2017
(01-23-2017, 08:16 PM)insidious Wrote: If you decide to actually learn the language and not just use it to pass your exams, make sure to keep using it.
Exactly this.
If you don't keep using a given language you've learned, It will be forgotten (to some degree) as time goes by. Even 30 minutes a day to keep the mind active and up-to-date with the language, will make the world of difference.