Temporary quotes for learning JavaScript

Question

I am interested in helping a friend this summer with some JavaScript problems he is experiencing on his website. The trouble is:

technical difficulties providing an online form. Sometimes we cannot verify them or users cannot send them.

I have experience with C and Java from university programming classes, but I have not yet been able to get in touch with any JavaScript, web development, or database programming.

So my questions are:

• Do I teach myself the necessary skills for troubleshooting a novice computer programming specialist?
• What skills are needed?
• How much time you guess, I can count on troubleshooting and solving the problem with its form.

Thank you tons!

Answer 1

A good rule of thumb is that it takes about 1000 hours to use something (in this case, JavaScript) to become professional on it.

However, since you have already coded earlier, you can immediately start helping your friend. Sometimes all that is required is a second set of eyes to look at something, to see a problem.

This is definitely a challenge for a second computer engineer. I would really like to help him.

I will immediately look at his code, and then spend a week making textbooks and take a second look.

Some notes:

Website forms are more than JavaScript. There are several parts:

• JavaScript form itself
• Sanitizing input (in JavaScript) to prevent users from entering bad data
• Sanitizing input after you received it on the server so that users do not send malicious data.

Finally, note that Stackoverflow focuses more on trying to answer specific technical questions, so if your friend has a very specific case where his code failed, you should post it here.

Answer 2

Yes, probably. If you already know C and Java, then nothing in JavaScript will be very alien to you syntactically, and if you learn JavaScript, you will probably be able to pick up the basics within a month and be able to do such things internally if you work on it sequentially.