That whole 'learn HTML first' advice feels backwards to me

I was at a coding meetup last Thursday and this guy kept saying beginners have to master HTML before touching anything else. Been coding for 6 months now and I learned JavaScript alongside HTML from day one, and it worked fine for me. Telling people they gotta spend months on markup before making anything interactive just kills their motivation. My first project was a dice roller that changed numbers on click, and I learned both tags and functions at the same time. Anyone else jump into JavaScript early and feel like it made more sense?

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jordanhall5mo ago

Honestly that "master HTML first" advice always bugged me too, your dice roller example proves it.

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amyh215mo ago

Yeah exactly, I tried to learn HTML "properly" for weeks and got nowhere. Finally just built a crappy calculator and learned more in one afternoon than all those tutorials combined. You pick up the syntax as you go, it's not rocket science. The real skill is knowing what you want to build and figuring out the pieces as you hit them. Half the time I'm just copying code from stack overflow anyway. Better to make broken stuff and fix it than wait until you feel "ready". That mindset just keeps you stuck.

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