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start creating small applications. Like, make an application to change the text on a page. then slowly grow bigger.

"I’m currently doing a Codecademy course and it’s not going too well, Webinars are all too advanced even the beginner ones."

Take a break. try out whatever you have learned so far and then continue where you left.

"it’s so hard to remember anything"

You don't have to. You will automatically memorize things as you learn. Until then don't hesitate from using cheat sheets and other reference resources.

"I don’t know what bots or vue or angular does"

They are solutions to some recurring problems which I don't think you will face anytime soon. You can try them out. just blindly follow a tutorial and leave it. get back to basics. you will slowly start missing how easy that blind tutorial was. then you would know what they are.

"Feeling really defeated"

That's a just common thing. In programming, nobody is invincible. Everybody gets stuck at some point. Try a different route.


What I do is play around with something using a reference and then go to a full tutorial. try it, maybe it will work.

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rvakid82 • Edited

Thank you for the reply. How would i make an application...like an app for a phone? I don’t even know where to begin.

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How about you just create an application as a website? Then slowly you can learn about what you need to make it into a native app.

Electron, React Native, etc. are all for this very purpose.

If you are a beginner, try to only concentrate on what you want to make. Platform, distribution, management, these all come after you know what you want to make.

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I don't know what to make....i don't even know what javascript would be able to do. Do i need to know react or native or electron to know javaScript? I thought I had to learn javaScript before those other languages?

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Do i need to know react or native or electron to know javaScript?

No.

I don't know what to make

Maybe start here