How many times did you give up on learning development?

Gnio — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 02:16:49 +0000

For those that learned development mostly by themselves, was it a one time achieved journey or did you gave up several times?

I'm in this situation in which i have started and progress until certain extend around 5 since I started back when I was 24. I'm now 30 and thinkig to start again.

A combination of hard to understand concepts, feeling stupid, progressing without really understanding what came before, and being generally overwhelmed with jargons I think caused me to quit before.

I wonder, should I even continue? Is this just me or has this happened to anyone? How often does this happen, if it does?

Thank you

ELI5: Functions vs. Class/Constructor in Javascript

Gnio — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:29:59 +0000

Hello everyone,

I trust my post finds you well and healthy.

I'm not a posting person, but I'm tired of trying to understand in simple terms what is the difference between Function and Constructor in Javascript. And also, Class?.

Every time I find an article about it, explains by starting that 'Classes in Javascript are not like any other language, and is just for syntax.' or 'Javascript doesn't really have Classes, like Java'.

The thing is, I don't know Java, or C, or any other language. So I don't understand the reference, or what really does that mean. My only reference to Classes is CSS. That what it comes to my mind.

More to that, I recently stumble upon Constructor on FreeCodeCamp. Another topic I've been trying to understand but can't find simple way to explain it. An article in CSS-Tricks 'understanding Javascript constructors' starts: "Having a good understanding of constructors is crucial to truly understand the JavaScript language."

*newbie feeling intensified

And then it drops this:
"Constructors are like regular functions, but we use them with the new keyword. ".

What? If they are the same, why should I really learn this? Why is it crucial? Then the article goes on with jargons of things I can't really comprehend as a newbie in a programming language. And without a 'big word alert'.

Can someone please try to explain me this or tell me where I can find explanation? I already tried the big ones (mozilla, w3c schools, eloquent javascript, css-tricks).

If you took the time to read this, I love you already.

Thank you all in advance and stay safe.

Forem: Gnio

How many times did you give up on learning development?

ELI5: Functions vs. Class/Constructor in Javascript