Coming back to JavaScript
About two years ago, I finally started learning to code. I started with a series of videos from a YouTube channel called Web Dev Simplified . I learned two things: I can build a pretty cool-looking website from scratch, there's nothing "mystical" or "undiscoverable" about code. I needed more of grounding in programming to be able to build a site myself. I realised that I'd just copied exactly what the tutor on Web Dev Simplified had told me to do. I hadn't thought about the code I was writing, and couldn't explain why it worked. About a year later I started CS50x: An Introduction to Computer Science . I learned enough of a background to programming that I was able to build my own web application. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, during a rainy evening in the North of England. I'm bored of watching TV or playing video games. So I decided to face JavaScript again by building a countdown clock. I decided I wanted a webpage on which I could ...