Why am I starting over with JavaScript?

Well to start, I am a junior developer in the making. I have been through tutorial purgatory and survived. I then decided to go through a bootcamp course on Udemy. The course itself was amazing and I learned so much. From HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery. Then to NodeJS, Express, MongoDB and others. Wait you just said you learned JavaScript so why are you starting over?

Well, I thought I learned JavaScript. I realized I didn’t learn enough when I started with React. I started with a simple React app just a SPA that was really a follow along to get familiar, and that’s when it hit me. I have no clue what I am doing.

Now, to be honest I brought it on myself; I have been naive with how much I thought I was learning. Simple JavaScript with HTML and CSS was fairly simple but when I had to start creating my own functions to handle things I was lost. LOST which caused severe issues when it came to React.

SO

I am starting over with JavaScript. From the beginning and slowly studying to ensure I grasp the fundamentals and really understand it. No tutorials on this one, strictly reading and note taking. I don’t want to fall into the false sense of thinking I’m learning because I’m making a cool project happen by following someone else coding. This is the first step towards my dream and realizing I set myself up for failure the first time is the first step in correcting my journey.