Hello. I started with Codecademy about a year ago. I’ve been struggling the whole time but made it through HTML and CSS. I’ve restarted my progress on the Full-Stack Career course several times but it just really doesn’t click all the way. Now I’m in the middle of learning React and I always end up looking at the solution cause reading the directions are like reading Chinese. All the techno-babble flies over my head. Do you guys have any general tips or a way that I can learn these concepts at a deeper level so that I actually know what I’m doing? Any advice would help. Thank you.
maybe slowing down and doing some coding outside of what the exercise ask for might help. Try not to move on to the next thing until you have some understanding of what you’re currently coding most of the time.
Sometimes I experiment in the exercise and see if I can do more stuff or if I can do what they ask for a different way. And sometimes I look up stuff in the documentation or just search for information online (or even in CodeCademy’s docs). I made up some little projects that I wanted to try for myself for practice in some cases.
Trying to code (stuff with as little assistance from AI as I could handle) helped me remember stuff too.
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