JavaScript section

[Qlander]

I hope the Javascript section gets better cause I dont feel like Im learning a damn thing atm…

[JeremyLT]

Javascript is hard. You need to learn some fundamentals before you can do anything meaningful with Javascript (or any full fledged programming language).

[ilenia]

Whenever you need help, ask on the forum, there is many people happy to help you

[Qlander]

Well hopefully thats what the basic JS section is teaching me. cause going through it, there are def moments where I feel like it is not basic and that there are lessons or concepts ive missed. are these lessons designed for me to research solutions that have not been taught?

[Qlander]

I am a math savant with a huge IQ and a capacity for learning and understanding difficult concepts better than pretty much everyone Ive personally met. Having said that, there are several different teaching and learning techniques. I am not compatible with all of them. As Im going through the “basic” JS challenges, it is apparent to me that I have either missed some lessons and concepts, or this is far from basic. Or maybe Im just not compatible with the teaching technique. Far too many times Ive had to guess or find the correct solution. After which, I still have no idea why that solution is correct. I cant be convinced that I am going through challenges that have covered lessons that I have been taught. Did I accidentally skip the real basic lessons and challenges?

[ilenia]

If you started the js certification from the top you didn’t skip the basics

I also have a pretty good instinctual grasp of maths and algorithms… coding is not easy anyway, it is a new field that you have not explored before.

If you need, ask for help. The forum is here.

Things that helped me:

• Online JavaScript Compiler, Visual Debugger, and AI Tutor - Learn JavaScript programming by visualizing code
• asking for help here on the forum
• helping here on the forum, explaining things to other

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Here, I will expose myself - the questions I had to ask

Use Destructuring Assignment to Pass an Object as a Function's Parameters - why I am not calling the object?

Tell us what’s happening: I don’t get why in this case I don’t need to call stats inside the function. Is it because it is the only object that there is? I use return function half({max, min}) {}, but does it works because there is only an object that has max and min properties and so as good practive I should call stats when using Destructuring Assignment like in the examples, or it just works like that? Your code so far const stats = { max: 56.78, standard_deviation: 4.34, median: 3…

Convert HTML Entities - how do I get to print in my console the raw html?

Tell us what’s happening: I had a lot of trouble in figuring out what was wrong with this solution (but I solved it)… so I have a simple question: there is a way to have printed somewhere the raw html of a string? Your code so far function convertHTML(str) { // &colon;&rpar; return str.replace("&","&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;").replace(">", "&gt;").replace('"', '&quot;').replace("'", "&apos;"); } convertHTML("Dolce & Gabbana"); console.log(convertHTML("Sixty > twelve")); Your browser i…

And I had others when I was at the basics, but I wasn’t a complete beginner when starting freeCodeCamp (I did Khan Academy before, and I think SoloLearn) so those aren’t here.

Ask for help, find your questions, ask your questions, don’t keep your doubts and uncertainties, ask your questions and people will help you out.

[JeremyLT]

@Qlander

are these lessons designed for me to research solutions that have not been taught?

No. The are many ways to accomplish the more complex problems, but they cn always be solved with syntax you’ve seen in the challenge text.

@Qlander

I am a math savant with a huge IQ

I have a math PhD. Coding is still inherently hard. Being a literal genius would not change the fact that coding is hard.