JuniorLearnsToCode

Falling in love with jQuery! No big discovery here, but as I was starting the jQuery section of  Colt Steel's Udemy Bootcamp course I immediately fell in love with the simplicity and the intuitive implementation of jQuery! All the bashing jQuery gets is completely unnecessary in my (rather noobish) opinion, John Resig made one of the best JavaScript libraries ever made, and the fact that it has been widely adopted by so many websites and still is widely used speaks enough of it's quality. Many libraries and frameworks coming and going, jQuery has been around since January 2006 - 10 plus years is a LOT in IT terms. One last thing, as I was going trough the course lessons I took a small break to check what's up on YouTube, and Beau from Free Code Camp just published his tutorial on jQuery!  Maybe Fate wants me to learn jQuery...

Why did I choose JavaScript as my first language? To answer that first question first I will need to embark on a little rant on how and why did I decide to learn coding. Roughly three years ago I was working as PC repair guy and got a tech support job at the end of 2014, after getting a few Microsoft certificates (MCP, MCSA, MCITP). At that time I started thinking about learning to code in my spare time. I tried learning Java but it left me confused and feeling a bit dumb to be honest, so I gave it up for a time.  After a longer pause I started playing with HTML and CSS at the end of 2016 and found them really easy, after all those two are not real programming languages. After some research I decide to give JavaScript a try. What I liked immediately about it is the fact that you can get instant visualization of what you're learning, all you need is a modern web browser it's easy to try stuff out in the browser console. In despite all quirks that JavaScript has I...