IS THIS A SETUP?

When I first met JavaScript, I was fresh out of HTML and CSS — and I didn’t find it funny at all.
It was my first real programming language, and it felt like stepping into a maze blindfolded.

I pulled all-nighters. I prayed. I binged tutorial after tutorial. I could grasp the idea behind each challenge, but actually writing the code? That was another story.
How could the “easy” challenge take ten lines, while the “hard” one took only two?

And don’t get me started on the errors.
A single missing parenthesis or semicolon could ruin my entire code. Every time I thought I had it figured out, JavaScript threw another curveball — data types, variables, naming rules, functions, arrays, loops. I tried to box everything neatly in my head, but every “rule” I made had too many exceptions. I wasn’t patient with myself.

Then it hit me: JavaScript is a language.
And like any language, it has quirks that outsiders find inconsistent. It’s the same way “Give her her book” works in English, but “Give him him book” doesn’t. Or how French gives gender to articles — un and une.

The moment I stopped trying to “hack” my way to mastery and started treating it like learning a foreign language, things got easier. You don’t expect fluency in a week. First, you learn just enough not to get lost. Then, enough to ask for what you need. And eventually, you tell full stories.

If you’re starting JavaScript — especially with no tech background — remember this:
Be patient. Break your goals into bite-sized wins. Don’t measure yourself against perfection, but against yesterday’s progress.

You’ll get there. Happy coding.