Tutorial advice
I am worried about this
I don't have money to purchase any course or go to programming school due to my background ๐๐
I am not learning from one channel on YouTube
Let me say I learned html and css from w3school now I am learning JavaScript from another channel
I hope a client can still consider me as far as I know my work ๐๐ฅบ
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my main advice to people learning is to spend by far the most of your time building things rather than following tutorials
you learn much better trying to figure out how something works and how to get it to do what you want than blindly typing in what someone's telling you to do
tutorials are a good place to start when you want to learn a new feature or a new skill, but you very quickly have to transition to doing things yourself, from scratch
That means I should focus my 70% on project then the rest on tutorial
What you said is the truth
Thanks sir ๐ฅบ
From what I have heard from some people in the industry. Certificates etc from bootcamps and courses aren't given much importance, degree is.
Otherwise it seems that it all comes down to your portfolio and your ability to articulate when talking about your project
Also on a slight tangent almost everything you can learn about web dev likely has a free resource.
Paid courses can be both good or bad regardless of price and the same goes for free ones.
But my main point here Is, is it good to use AI when building with JavaScript
You never mentioned anything about ai in your post
If you're a beginner forget it. AI will just rob you from the opportunity of learning.
I would be radical and say do not use it at all but others may disagree
Fully agree on avoiding AI
Especially as a beginner
Thank you all for your support
I will try and create things myself
As a beginner AI is the worst possible option. It will lie to you and, because you're a beginner, you won't know when it lies. So you get confused/upset that the code isn't working.
But if you learn JavaScript from, say, https://javascript.info or some other reputable site/video series, then you'll learn the language. Then you can build things. And as you build you will learn more.
Also, W3School is not a reputable site. It's outdated tutorials with really good SEO.
AI will also do the thing you are trying to learn: reason about code and come up with your own solutions
so you'll never learn what you need to do to become a programmer
At this stage in your learning, the only things you should be using AI for is asking what easy things you can make, as well as "I want to do X, what steps do I need to take to do it?" Basically anything that's not code but helpful suggestions/steps. That way, you can build and lear.
But like Jochem said, part of being a programmer has nothing to do with code: it's also about reasoning through what you need to do. So don't rely too much on AI for that.
Thank God I join this community the right time
I will delete ai that is in my phone and focus on real learning
one thing nobody mentioned here about ai: it lies
it halucinates like mario on shrooms
it just makes up stuff, and since you're a beginner, you won't be able to debug it at all too
I did say that ๐
yes you did
i read it but my brian skipped that bit
im sorry
No worries. I get ignored all the time ๐คฃ
But my question is that
Can someone use it to learn instead of copying code
Like chatgpt
As a beginner you can't
It will hallucinate and give you wrong info and because you don't know any better you will not know it's wrong
I'm not a beginner but also not a professional. I used AI a bit when I needed to get ideas on how to do something and even then I have to double check with the documentation because like I said you can't trust ai.
Nowadays i barely use it
Oh the hallucination argument was already made. Well one more into the pile
You all tried for me
Is now that I found the best JavaScript course that I understand very well โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
Bro code course from YouTube
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