Maybe it's time for a fresh approach.
Youtube tutorials, udemy courses and ChatGPT can only you get so far...
“I've reached a point when JavaScript is no longer exciting. It's just scary... I might get something to work, but I have no idea why it works and it terrifies me."
Sound familiar? Maybe there's a voice in your head telling you things like:
That last one is HAUNTING. I felt the same once..
I remember the overwhelming self-doubt. It went deeper than imposter syndrome. It wasn't only the fear of being exposed as a fraud. It was worse... it was the fear that I was incapable.
As a senior JavaScript developer who has coached and mentored beginners and juniors for YEARS, I can tell you with certainty you are capable.
I did it. I've helped many students do it. You can do it too!
The Great Sync takes you on a journey.
I often get asked by students to explain one of JavaScript’s more tricky concepts, like closures or prototypal inheritance. I reply by asking them to first explain something basic, like how objects can store other objects.
The reaction is almost always the same. “I know these basics, I want to learn more advanced stuff”.
But do you know the basics? Do you really?
The turning point is the moment you begin to deconstruct JavaScript - to really understand each piece of the puzzle.
This is what Imagine JavaScript is all about. We get to the "advanced stuff" by putting the pieces together.
We use our imagination to to understand how JavaScript conecpts are connected.
We visualize each concept creatively, in a way that makes it memorable while also explaining its behaviour... We grow our mental model layer by layer.
It's a journey through JavaScript - exploring, visualizing and connecting as we go.
This Great Sync Mental Model is based on the See, Build & Peg Learning System:
Using visual and mnemonic representations of JS concepts, we change our perspective.
Quizes and exercises inside an interactive code editor help us investigate & play with the concepts.
We reflect on what we learn, and connect our new knowledge to what we already know.
Code is not two dimensional. It occupies space and time. It is a physical, moving force..
Using the power of our imagination, we can paint a vivid picture of what each line of code does. We can construct a beautiful, memorable representation of JavaScript, and refer to it whenever we write or read code.
Take this scene from The Great Sync Mental Model:
A model like this conveys EXACTLY how JavaScript behaves, everything from functions, to scope, to closures.
The following are the course sections:
What would it feel like if you felt confident about your fundamentals?
Let‘s imagine what being a professional JavaScript developer CAN and SHOULD look like.
You arrive at the office at 9am. You look forward to seeing your colleagues - all experts in their fields, from designers to dev ops.
You‘re a specialist too, and play an important role in the team.
You sit at your desk, and begin planning the day‘s work. You‘re quite new in the job, but already they need you to urgently fix a bug in the application.
This is the first time you‘re seeing the code. You smile and remember a time this would cause panic and stress.
Now, it‘s just a challenge - a satisfying exercise to fix something with the knowledge you have. It‘s only plain JavaScript.
It‘s the same patterns you used to learn the latest framework quickly.
And the same patterns you used the night before in your side project - a vanilla JS app you can‘t wait to get back to.
Only a deep appreciation and understanding of the fundamentals give you the power to recognize these patterns.
It‘s what sets you apart.
It‘s time to level up!
Have you decided that a career spent blindly copy-pasting and never being able to build anything with confidence is not for you?
This is your opportunity to transform your understanding of JavaScript.
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