# Speed running programming! **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [December 20, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/speed-running-programming/672149 "2024-12-20T15:42:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![isha](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/isha/32/27854_2.png) [@isha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/isha)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/speed-running-programming/672149/1 "2024-12-20T15:42:19Z")
I am Isha, and hellbent on becoming a programmer. What made me so was reading about recursion in eloquent.js and being able to reason through and design functions for problems on my own. Discovering how the screen i see is not a monolithis structure and how every click is handled through events is so exciting. It is like standing behind a stage and seeing the tricks of a magician. Warning 🥶 : It is a pretty long ramble about learning. For this whole year, I have been learning programming. Particularly Js. Now I am taking it seriously. There are various approaches that I tried: 1. FreeCodeCamp’s JS course in January 2. University of Helsinki course for Python 3. Eloquent Js in April 4. Javascript.online. The last resource is what I am doing right now, and after frying my brain with it, I am writing this post. I will explain my reasons for everything. **1. FreeCodeCamp** The general recommendation I got was to learn it through freeCodeCamp. 5. I quit it. I remember feeling disappointment that I was not learning much by just doing what they were telling me. 6. There was not enough theory just some instructions. 7. I wasn’t interested in projects. **2. Eloquent JS** It was hard. Theory was beautiful; exercises hell. 8. I quit because I could not solve any exercises beyond 2nd chapter. 9. I thought I was stupid. 10. There were no projects. Technically, there was a robot. After quitting the book, I took a long break. I got a book about functional programming with Miranda and it has excellent pedagogy(miranda is dead.) I encountered a problem that I wanted to solve. Asked Claude how to do it and stared at the code that it returned(Typescript). To be able to build it, I need to know events, classes, some more functions, loops perhaps or conditionals, async, await, this, objects. I have also discovered an open-source startup that uses React and I want to contribute to it. So this time around I have two projects I am interested in. I thought I needed to just read javascript.info in a day or two to be familiar with syntax (I had never visited it, in my defense). The goal was to then go and build my project. Then yesterday I read the first article and realized, okay, I need to give it 3 full days every week. **3. Javascript.info** I skipped the basics part and landed on objects. 1. This time I am reading and writing the code from memory in a browser compiler. Then doing exercises and explaining concepts by writing short summaries. 2. So far I have covered the objects part. In the next section, I need to write some loops and functions, and I need to go back to basics. I have a few questions mostly for myself. The hypothesis of mine that I can, with breaks, do this whole day. Is what I am learning here transferable to my project? Or am I repeating my mistake of eloquent.js here? Am I leading myself to burnout by writing summaries, doing exercises of the topics I won’t likely encounter in my project? To be able to build, I need to know handle events, classes, some more functions, loops perhaps or conditionals, async, await, this, objects, This time, I want to build and not quit. What would you do differently given my experience? ![Screenshot 2024-12-20 204729](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/7/0/707d6990e0373457c69d1bf0447ce27b7a2860aa.png) ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/speed-running-programming/672149/2 "2024-12-21T03:38:07Z")
What is your timeframe? Why the rush? ✈ ---
**Author:** ![isha](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/isha/32/27854_2.png) [@isha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/isha)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/speed-running-programming/672149/3 "2024-12-21T15:02:17Z")
I like to learn in intensive bursts. Actually I want to get to build something instead of just solving exercises which is what I have been doing for the whole year. ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/speed-running-programming/672149/4 "2024-12-22T21:13:14Z")
What are you trying to build? ---
**Author:** ![isha](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/isha/32/27854_2.png) [@isha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/isha)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/speed-running-programming/672149/5 "2025-01-02T10:54:28Z")
An obsidian plugin, which allows outlining like logsec’s journal feature.