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Sushil Bishnoi
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Javascript: A roadmap to learn Javascript🔥🚀

Unlocking the Path to JavaScript Mastery: A Self-Taught Programmer's Guide to Starting Strong and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

To give a little context about javascript:

Primarily javascript is for the web. So, When you go to any website or web application there you will see all the content that will get populated using HTML (layout) & CSS (Design).

Whereas javascript plays a role when you try to interact with that application. Let's say you want to fill the form, upload/download a file, enter details, etc. everything is the interaction that you do with that application handled by javascript (behavior).

Hope that clarifies what can javascript actually does.

Mastering JavaScript Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Syntax:

  • Variables
  • Data Types
  • Operators
  • Conditional Statements - if, if-else, switch.. etc
  • Comments
  • Loops - while, for, etc.

Once is Enough: Mastering Javascript fundamentals for lasting knowledge and understanding.

Unveiling the Language's Building Blocks: A Comprehensive Exploration of

  • Strings
  • Arrays
  • Dates
  • Math
  • Regular expression

Practicing Several examples several times make you an expert in using them.

Exploring Essentials Javascript Features:

  • Functions
  • Objects
  • Classes
  • DOM Manipulation
  • JSON
  • Async JavaScript
  • Modules
  • other javascript-specific handling like using this, coercion, errors, hoisting, style guide, etc.

Getting the concept of these items is very much important. Learning and practicing with simple examples for 1-2 times enough. You would easily grasp what each one does as per its context.

Inner Workings and Mechanics of the Language.

  • Browser APIs
  • Web APIs
  • javascript execution context
  • Memory handling
  • Interpreter/compiler

Go through them once and keep in mind what each does

Keep practicing the below items

  • Array methods
  • String methods
  • Date methods
  • Regex methods
  • Math methods

There are couple more things we usually have to follow:

  • Trying any programming paradigms like functional programming
  • Going through different javascript blogs
  • Going through interview questions or programming examples
  • Doing simple projects

This path makes you a better javascript developer.

Do follow only one website or tutorial or youtube channel where all these contents are covered.
Going through each of them in order will be very much helpful.

Thankyou
All the very best🔥

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