Easiest way to learn javascript1/16/2024 ![]() ![]() My professional focus is on using technology to reduce the effort and tedium of learning, primarily through interactivity. I'm a former lecturer in the Communications School of Boston University. And, since exercises are the only way to make the knowledge stick, I programmed 1,750 of them for you. So I wrote a book that makes JavaScript easy. Without practice, I couldn't retain anything. But I had to design exercises for myself. The books were bad teachers! I fought my way through a dozen books, and by brute effort, learned JavaScript. It was such a struggle that I decided I must have lost some learning ability over the years. RubyĪ few years ago I set out to teach myself JavaScript by reading programming books. "Mark Myers' method of getting what can be.difficult information into a format that makes it exponentially easier to consume, truly understand, and synthesize into real-world application is beyond anything I've encountered before." -Amazon reviewer Jason A. (Do you really need to be told what a variable is?) But if you're new to programming, more than a thousand five-star reviews are pretty good evidence that my book may be just the one to get you coding JavaScript successfully. If you're an accomplished programmer already, my book may be too elementary for you. But, as Amazon reviewer James Toban says, when you get to the end of the book, you've built "a tower of JavaScript." Every lesson is built on top of a solid foundation that you and I have carefully constructed. The exercises keep you focused, give you extra practice where you're shaky, and prepare you for each next step. "The layman syntax he uses.makes it much easier to suddenly realize a concept that seemed abstract and too hard to wrap your head around is suddenly not complicated at all." - Amazon reviewer IMHO (Face it, fellow authors, it is the plague.) I avoid unnecessary technical jargon like the plague. I explain every little thing in sixth-grade English. ![]() Making no assumptions about what you already know, I walk you through JavaScript slowly, patiently. I wrote the book and exercises especially for people who are new to programming. "Very effective and fun." -Amazon reviewer A. And since many people find doing things more enjoyable than reading things, it can be a pleasure to learn this way, quite apart from the impressive results you achieve. It's how you wind up satisfied, confident, and proud, instead of confused, discouraged, and defeated. You'll spend two to three times as much time practicing as reading. This book takes only 10 minutes each chapter and after that, you can exercise what you've just learned right away!" -Amazon reviewer Constanza Morales "I've signed up to a few sites like Udemy, Codecademy, FreeCodeCamp, Lynda, YouTube videos, even searched on Coursera but nothing seemed to work for me. Thanks to the interactive exercises on my website, you'll always understand and remember everything necessary to confidently tackle the next concept. If you get lost trying to understand variable scope, it's because you don't remember how functions work. But I can teach.Īnyway, most comprehension problems are just retention problems in disguise. I'll never code fast enough to land a job at Google. I'm the opposite of the typical software book author. But the fault lies with the authors, coding virtuosos who lack teaching talent. That's why the Dummies books sell so well. Many learners hit a wall when they try to understand advanced concepts like variable scope and prototypes. You keep trying until you know the chapter cold. When you stumble, you do the exercise again. Algorithms check your work to make sure you know what you think you know. After reading a short chapter, you go to my website and complete twenty interactive exercises. But my system does flashcards one better. How can you retain everything? Only by constantly being asked to play everything back. To become fluent in a computer language, you have to retain pretty much everything. You remember only ten or twenty percent of what you read. ![]() I remove the problems, and you start having fun. Learning JavaScript is hell because of two problems. ![]()
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