Best steps to master JavaScript programming language

To build web app, JavaScript is not exceptional because of its ability to manipulate the browser environment. Beyond client side scripting, JavaScript libraries enable us to interact with server side, exchanging data with php. This tutorial is not about JavaScript libraries, this tutorial is to give you steps that will enable you understand and master the language itself.

Many are battling with JavaScript without knowing the real course, what would this course may be? This is what I am going to tell you here. Don’t say JavaScript is hard because of the way you start learning. If you start in the right direction you’ll get it right.

To understand JavaScript we must know how the language works, then how can we know how the language work is another question on its own. For web app, after learning html and css they usually tell us to learn JavaScript before learning php, isn’t it?

The pattern in which the language report error is another annoying thing, compared to that of php, but thanks for our amazing browser! I really want to make this tutorial short  and understandable to my readers.

What I am trying to tell you is that the way many beginners start approaching the language is very wrong. Don’t quote me wrong here, I mean some and not all. We start learning from the end to the start, that’s why many JavaScript programmers failed to understand the language properly.

If you’re among those people, after you read through this article you will know why you’re not doing great with it after spending months or years learning it.

You might be asking why does it taking this guy to expose the secret behind, don’t just panic yet.

Every beginners should approach the language from scratch, what do I mean with scratch? Don’t start learning it from Jquery, Ajax etc because those  libraries will make you lose control over the language. Please this should not sound stupid to you, it will help you a lot.

JavaScript learning guides:

 GUIDE: First understand the rules of the language

GUIDE: Don’t start with Jquery

GUIDE: Don’t start with Ajax avoid libraries for the first period.

GUIDE: Start with plain JavaScript

GUIDE: Try to build JavaScript text editor (WYSWYG)

GUIDE: Learn libraries when you’re done learning plain JavaScript

Beginners who start with libraries find it difficult to go well with plain JavaScript, this is a result of “write less, do more” they don’t bother to go deep into the plain JavaScript. libraries are really helpful only when you first of all understand plain JavaScript, use it to interact with DOM. This is the method I found JavaScript easy for me and I think sharing it with others will go a long way.

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Not all companies will appreciate your libraries experience, What make you a programmer is not libraries but plain scratch coding skills. You can even build your libraries if you master plain JavaScript.

I want you to ask yourself this question while reading this post, Can I really read the codes I’ve written? Writing codes is great, but do you understand those codes? Computer programming have to do with reading and writing, Imagine a company ask you to explain your codes as interview, can you be able to do that? Big unexpected question!

If you know you’re set to learning libraries, start with Ajax then move to Jquery when you’re done with Ajax. Making web page refresh without manually refreshing the page is a good idea, but should be only when you mastered plain JavaScript.

If you're doing Jquery, check our Jquery YouTube video on "how to make an element blink"

Today I am very happy I start with plain JavaScript, to me JavaScript is not actually hard, maybe that’s because of the way I started it. There is no way we can totally avoid JavaScript in our web applications.

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