Hello, I am a full time student. No job or anything. I have an interest in web/web application development. I have a basic understanding of javascript but I want to know the best way to learn. At times I feel like I do not understand what I am writing even though it works. I want to use the most efficient way to learn. My school offers CS classes and I will be taking them next semester. I am purely motivated at the moment and I want to keep learning as much as a can.
Discere faciendo (learn by doing).<p>This answer is a cliche, but it is a cliche for a reason -- it really is the best way to learn and lucky for you it is highly applicable to development where access to computers is cheap and access to all the information you could ever want is even cheaper.<p>Instead of defining your goals in terms of "I need to learn X, Y and Z about JavaScript and HTML", define your goals in terms of "I want to build this website which I'm pretty sure might require X, Y and Z in JavaScript", all of which I will have to learn as part of the process.<p>I don't mean this to be a dig at you personally, but as a 40 year old who had to learn mostly out of whatever paper books and manuals I could scrounge up from local libraries, I'm kind of flabbergasted by questions like this appearing because... well, I've got to assume you have access to the Internet. Which has, like, everything on it. Everything! Perhaps in a way we swung too far too fast and the issue now is information overload, but 15 year old me would have killed for access to the type of information that is now just a google away.
Protocademy.com teaches by doing (the proto part comes from prototyping). Its a paid program, due to how many benefits you get. It works because you learn by doing (which is the best way).<p>Disclaimer: I'm the founder of protocademy.com
Here you go:<p><a href="http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?course=WebApplications" rel="nofollow">http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...</a>