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Back to Basics

Last week I finished a blog about learning JavaScript by saying "more on that next week". I don't know why I make promises like that. I should just say nothing and surprise you with the "more" when I get round to it.

What happened as a result of my (empty) promise was that I felt pressure (especially after a couple of you said you were looking forward to it) to write something concise and meaningful at some point last week. What actually happened was I never felt the inspiration needed in order to do so. Hence the solitary blog entry last week.

The real reason is that I just haven't had the time to write such an in-depth blog. A typical blog entry can take an hour or so to write. Something along the lines of what I was planning would take at least twice as long as that, if not longer still. I just don't have that much time spare right now.

You'll have to make do with more seemingly-random entries until I get more time.

In the mean time here's a copy of the file I have on my desktop at the moment. It's a HTML file with some JavaScript in it (see source). What I'm doing is going back to basics. Instead of reading I'm just doing. I've started by creating objects in JavaScript and seeing what happens when I mess around with them and add prototype functions etc. In testing what I think is true I'll hopefully learn what actually is.

Back to normal from now on though. Hope I haven't disappointed any of you. I'll try and talk about JavaScript at some point. Just don't expect anything amazing!

Comments

  1. No worries, Jake. We all get side tracked or delayed from time to time in our pursuits. You'll find inspiration enough when you get that eureka moment, which takes just time and lack of distraction. :-)

  2. Absolutely no pressure, Jake.

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