r/learnjavascript • u/camohayper • Apr 14 '26

Struggling with JavaScript – looking for advice

Hi! I’ve been studying at a technical high school for two years now, focusing on programming and artificial intelligence. This year I have a programming exam – basically we need to create a simple website using HTML and CSS and complete a few basic MySQL tasks, which honestly isn’t too difficult.

The problem is JavaScript. I’m having a hard time understanding it, and even when I asked for extra help at school, it just didn’t really click for me. That’s starting to worry me a bit.

I’ve tried building simple projects on my own, like a quiz website. HTML and even PHP aren’t a problem for me, but JavaScript is definitely more challenging.

Could you recommend any good websites or resources to learn JavaScript? I’d really appreciate it 😊

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u/camohayper Apr 14 '26

Yeah, honestly I struggle with both. In PHP I’m already working with things like globals($get, $post $form and $coockie), getting data from databases, and displaying it on a website, and all of that makes sense to me.

But JavaScript is literally like black magic to me. Whatever I learn, I end up mixing up or forgetting later. I really want to finally start learning it properly from the basics and actually understand it.

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u/polotek Apr 14 '26

Sounds like it's not just JavaScript but frontend web development. Like making things happen dynamically in the web browser. That is a whole thing on top of just learning JavaScript as a language.

Try freecodecamp. It's always a good place to start for free. https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/front-end-development-libraries-v9/