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tq-bit • Edited

Brad Traversy's channel taught me all the basics almost single handedly. He's got several crash courses that explain JS front-to-end in a very pragmatic manner. I'm a 'learning-by-doing' type, so those videos really helped removing stoppers in the beginning.

Afterwards, I think it clicked a few times:

  • Once I started learning my first other programming language (Python). It taught me the advantages of OOP, and programming principles in general.
  • Then when I started learning Typescript. It taught me to worry less about writing the code, but giving it (and yourself) boundaries to work with.
  • A few weeks ago when I started learning Rust. I got a deeper understanding of how Javascript's event loop, stacks and the heap play together. And why async code has to be written in callback functions or Promises.

And finally I figure, Javascript is still somewhat difficult. It just isn't as scary anymore 😎