Re:How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer
by juliangregorian on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:43PM
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Because they have the depth of experience that is otherwise unavailable except by months or years of hard-fought struggle.
It only takes being bitten a few times by rushing into a new tech and doing everything completely wrong from the start. The smart learn from their own mistakes, but the truly wise learn from others'.
This still holds true in JavaScript.
Re:How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer
by Fargren on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @10:51PM
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Books are about communicating experiences. A great book can give you the knowledge it would take years to get by personal experience alone. If anything, people involved in programming don't read nearly enough. We have giants on whose shoulders we should be standing, and instead we just retrace their footsteps. We need to stop ignoring our past.
Obviously, practice is also critical, but my point is most people who love to program love the act of programming, so they obviously already do a lot of that.
Much better to just jump in and start figuring things out. Google your questions, find Stack Overflow questions. Fiddle with CodePen (etc) examples to see what variables and functions do what. Once you're well versed, read the occasional blog post about emerging techniques and patterns.
I work in JS day in, day out, and this approach hasn't seen me wrong. But we're all different.