Bridging the Skill Gap Between Absolute Beginner and the Next Phase.

Question

I’m almost completely new to programming; I’ve only been studying for about a month and a half. My goal is to is to become a web developer. As such, I’m grinding hard to understand HTML, CSS, and especially JavaScript.

I feel my conceptual competence in JavaScript growing, yet I still cannot independently answer challenge questions like the ones on SoloLearn or in Eloquent JavaScript.

What can I do to ensure that I am making progress toward being able to tackle coding practice problems?

Answer 1

2 ways i recommend.
challenges question : See the correct answer rate. Is there any improvements?

Coding : Try applying what you have learnt. If you can do it, youre making progress...

Answer 2

You said that you still cant indepedently answer challenge question. In this case, when you do challenge, normally how much score do you get? Thats correct answer rate. After time, do your rate improves?

For example, firstly my answer rate in HTML is just 2, but now its nearly 5. That shows improvements right?

Answer 3

🌎 ShortCode 🌏 Thanks for your reply. Would you kindly rephrase the first part of your answer? I’m not sure I understand.

Answer 4

Yes, you should study more.

Btw Donal there are many questions at challenge which gives an example of an code.

Dont worry, when there are something you dont understand, feel free to ask in this Q&A. We are ready to help.

Answer 5

🌎 ShortCode 🌏 Thank you very much for your help!

Answer 6

🌎 ShortCode 🌏 Ah, now I get it. I haven’t acutally done a challenge on SoloLearn yet because I haven’t been able to answer even just simple beginner questions from any source.

I could just look up examples of solutions online, but I don’t think I can grow in JavaScript by being reliant on web searches. I do pretty well on study questions like in the SoloLearn tutorials, but I feel so clueless when I sit down to actually write code. Even something like, “Write a short program that prints all the even numbers between 0 and 100” is very difficult for me.

Maybe I just need to study more?