The latest articles on DEV Community by Adam (@trythesetips). https://dev.to/trythesetips https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F235814%2F203b8db7-a77c-4e2b-a4be-3b178fc45802.jpg https://dev.to/trythesetips en Adam Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:50:16 +0000 https://dev.to/trythesetips/learning-javascript-week-1-1ej https://dev.to/trythesetips/learning-javascript-week-1-1ej <p>I started learning JavaScript this week and started with this course by Brad on Udemy <a href="https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-javascript-full-stack-from-scratch/">https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-javascript-full-stack-from-scratch/</a></p> <p>After getting about half way through it I got overwhelmed and I feel like the only thing I'm improving is my "copy and paste" skills as I follow the course. The further into the course I get, the more overwhelmed I feel.</p> <p>I definitely learned a few things though:</p> <ol> <li>VS Code is a great tool for editing code.</li> <li>MongoDB Atlas is really cool.</li> <li>I remember the difference between let and const</li> <li>I'm not even sure that I could code an alert popup</li> <li>I'm not very confident that I can learn JavaScript</li> </ol> <p>Choosing this course may have been a bad decision, there might be a better place to start but I'm not sure what that would be. Google searches are so tainted by people trying to sell stuff that it's hard to tell what or who to believe, which makes it incredibly difficult to find a good place to start.</p> <p>Overall I feel overwhelmed, but I learned to log "Hello World" to the console.</p> javascript mongodb heroku