Thanks so much, @Rob Zombee! I’ve been wanting to get back to the Beginner JS series. I was thinking of doing a video on scoping. Anything else you think would be helpful?

@@CodinginPublic A video on scoping would be excellent! So far, I have gone through your videos in JS and they’re making sense to me, and filling some of the gaps in my knowledge. I will have to re-watch the one on you had on THIS to grasp that concept a bit more. I’m curious, how long did it take you to feel comfortable with JS? Are you always looking at the documentation, or personal notes to refer back to when you forget how to do something you haven’t used in a while?

Great! I’m glad the videos have been helpful! I’ll work on that scoping video soon, then. It can be confusing at first. The THIS keyword probably also deserves its own video at some point. As to my comfort level, I’d say I always feel as though I’m learning more. I think there are at least four keys to learning JS: 1. Consistency (writing some everyday) 2. Documentation (learning how to read docs well) 3. Concepts > syntax (if you focus on concepts, you can always Google syntax; if you know syntax but don't really understand the concepts, it's much harder to google those) 4. Projects from scratch (regularly sit down with a blank file and create a small project-it can even just be something like an action run from a button click. Use only Google for help and look up only individual items, not your specific project. Once you finish, go find a similar project and see what they did differently from you.) I'd say I was feeling mostly confident after 6 months of learning JS, but I still look back every 4-5 weeks and see how I would now do things differently, which seems to be a good sign of growth. Yea, I mostly just live in MDN docs when I'm not sure about something. FWIW, I think Wes Bos’s Beginner JS course is amazing and worth going through. You can read through the entire course at wesbos.com/javascript if you prefer written instruction, but I think the video is well worth it (or you can just start with the free section). (Sorry for the long reply lol)

@@CodinginPublic Thank you for the suggestions and answering my questions.

Awesome. So glad it was a help. Thanks for taking the time to say something!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks! Hoping the series I’m able to eventually get together will be a help to beginners especially. Being very new to programming myself I think helps me know what seems confusing? Hopefully 😂

@@CodinginPublic the basics are essential in learning. We tend to not give much attention to them each time we start learning something new, but we end up searching solutions for small stupid bugs. Thats happened to me recently when i had to do a small calculation using js, something like 0.1 + 0.2, and then i figure out that js has an issue with that.

Completely agree. It’s usually the basics that cause the biggest problems. Once you know the basics you can fix most any bug.

Haha I’ve gotten that before ha

Thanks!!