Completed Scrimba JavaScript Course: My Experience

Riddle — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:58:51 +0000

Getting Introduced to the Perfect Course

I was looking for a good JS tutorial/course because I knew HTML and
CSS to create some 'okay' websites. JS is needed to add all the functionality and stuff, :) plus it's more of a programming language. HTML and CSS is more like writing a book, but JS is what is used to print, publish and correct everything (I don't know, maybe). Somebody on a web development discord server told me to try out Scrimba and holy moly it was so good. The site literally had what I always looked for : Studying but with interactive practicals so you can use the knowledge you have on something rather than spending 10-20hours on YouTube videos and reading random blogs.

The process and what I learned

Starting the JS course was bit a scary start! I felt nervous thinking it's going to be the hardest language ever, but the Lecturer was super helpful even tho he was just a recording in a screen. Taking things very slow and explaining everything properly.

What I did while I was learning JS was creating a test site and just use the knowledge I had to test on what this and that functions do. So I know why this stuff exists and why it should be used for.

I sometimes did (well, a lot) of the time do a bit of a cheating by using AI for help, but AI is just really helpful when it comes to explaining you stuff. You can't really ask MDN Docs to explain everything 😅 I used Copilot to explain me terms that I didn't understand.

After learning for a while we had to build something that will be used irl and that was a Chrome extension. Building it helped me learn everything that I thought I knew but in reality I didn't have. The more I tried all the challenges Scrimba the more I needed to learn, and it was really fun to keep learning new and old things each second!

I don't know what else to say lol, but basically at the end we built a mobile web app and I learned how to use my first database.
I did do a bit of tweaking and made my own version of the app :)
check it out here : https://riddleshoppinglistapp.netlify.app

Need help regarding using AI as a student!

Riddle — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:49:43 +0000

I'm new to web development and I took a big break from coding. I'm back to start coding again to focus on my future.

My question is basically is it okay to use AI to generate small codes and help when creating or completing assigments/projects?

I sometimes find AI to be very useful when you have a specific error and need results very fast rather than make posts in random tech sites.

New web dev.

Riddle — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:42:03 +0000