Topic: Is javascript easy or hard to learn?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM started this discussion 12 years ago #34,394

Just wondering.

Meowth joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 20 minutes later[^] [v] #474,784

Easy.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 12 years ago, 49 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #474,788

@previous (Meowth)
How easy? As easy as HTML and CSS?

Meowth replied with this 12 years ago, 46 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #474,791

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
For me it was easy as HTML, but I haven't done any coding whatsoever in years. I've lost nearly all my knowledge.

dw ltd joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 34 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #474,793

Catherine why

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 12 years ago, 22 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #474,796

@previous (dw ltd)
Why what?

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #474,798

@474,793 (dw ltd)
cathy wants to code a dick and have sex with the dick

r04r joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #474,799

Easier than fucking perl in my opion. Not really comparabilie with CSS and HTML, as neither of those are programming languages. HTML is a (HyperText) Markup Language, and CSS are a set of rules used for styling the HTML.

The nice thing about Javascript is that you can run it right in the browser. This is nice for learning because:

1) If you see something done on another site that you want to know how it's done, you can usually do view source (or use the chrome inspector/firebug) and do some digging, and you'll fine it.
2) You have access to tools such as http://jsfiddle.net (Example fiddle that I written a while ago to deal with some code generation: http://jsfiddle.net/DmMm9/3/ ).
3) It's "hip". You will find a lot of online resources for it, some of them better than others. Watch the dates of anything you read, and stay away from the older shit.
4) I like it ;) As always you're welcome to ask questions on IRC.

It's a little bit of a weird language since it doesn't relate too much to other object oriented languages since it itself is prototype based instead. I don't think you'll have to worry about that too much just yet, and if you do, javascript just fakes it till it makes it.

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Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 7 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #474,808

It’s easy to do basic things, but hard to Do It Right™

DasSheeple joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 16 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #474,881

It's one weird as fuck language, but these days, everything is being written in JavaScript.
Just look at the hipster stack (known as the MEAN stack, http://www.mean.io ).

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r04r replied with this 12 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #474,886

@previous (DasSheeple)
lol

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