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Discussion on: ES6 Mini Crash Course: How to Write Modern JavaScript

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Miguel Velez-White

Chris, I was very impressed with your tutorial; but I was also quite dumbfounded. I'm basically a retread. I grew up in the era of mainframes, punch cards and COBOL. dBaseIII+ and IV reminded me how much I missed programming. However, I stayed on the admin/engineering track. Now we have DevOps (DevSecOps and DevNetOps in some places). I love the concept, but it's going to take a while before I can feel worthy enough to contribute anything. I thought that Javascript might be easy as I'd had a taste of JSON when I was doing PowerShell and .NET. You tutorial taught me alright. It taught me that I know NOTHING about javascript. I tried to follow along as best I could, but it was like trying to understand Integral Calculus again. Let's just say that I got my butt whooped and barely passed it all those years ago. Looks like I'm going to be sitting at the 'kiddies' table for a while as I try to learn these other dialects.

I love languages. I can even speak a few besides English. But right now, my heads filled with PowerShell, .NET, Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI and so on. The further I get, the more I realize that I don't know and it can be frustrating; but at the end of the day, it really is still fun.

Do you by chance have a 'baby-primer' version of your class? I don't think that Javascript for Dummies could even help me right now. What I can relate to is your teaching style. You are a great communicator and your graphics for the examples are first rate. So I know that some day, I'll be able to understand your teachings a lot easier. For now, I'll take my dunce cap and go sit in the corner for a spell. Don't worry, I'm not giving up. It's all too much fun and if you and the community can be patient with a slowpoke like me, then I know that I'll make the grade - just a bit further down the road.

Meanwhile, if you ever need any help with VMware, or need a few virtual servers built somewhere, I offer my services gratis because I really want to learn from you.

LLAP,
Miguel (aka GulMiguel/Airwolf) :)

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Chris Achard • Edited

Don't feel bad! I should have been more clear at the top that this is a good ES6 intro if you already know javascript. If you don't have much javascript experience yet, then a lot of this was probably quite confusing :)

I don't have a crash course for basic javascript yet - but I do have one planned! So you can look forward to that at some point.

One of the better resources I've found is a great free book called "Eloquent JavaScript": eloquentjavascript.net/ which is much more complete and beginner friendly.

This website (DEV) also has some great intro JS resources! You may have to search a bit to find them, but I know I've read some good ones here in the past.

I hope that helps some! Let me know if there's anything I can help with specifically, or if you're really stuck on something.

Oh! and the best advice I can give is to just play around! use codesandbox.io or codepen, and just start to experiment there and see how things go.

Good luck learning!