How I learnt JavaScript

After HTML, and CSS, in the second semester of the second year, we got into JavaScript, it was more intuitive that html and CSS because it's closer to C which by now we have mastered back then, but it had some annoying quirks like loose vs strict, and having to deal with more than one falsy value was already overwhelming back then because it didn't make sense, same as HTML and CSS I had to learn JavaScript from an outer course to be able to apply the requirements of the many projects we were assigned to build.

At the second half after the midterms it started to get more complex especially when the codes started to get so big, repetitive, and it just seemed like an infinite loop. but thanks to the versatile projects that we were assigned to build with vanilla JavaScript it became so intuitive. asynchronous, variable environments, scopes, execution context, function closures, and how it all works behind the scenes eventually all made sense by the end of the semester, I finished the course I'm following on Udemy, I built my projects, and finally could confidently say "I know JavaScript".

Wed Apr 01 2026

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