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title: How to start learning to code

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# How to start learning to code

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Some advice for when you're just starting out

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## Google everything

It's not cheating to look things up! It's how you learn

Note:
It took me >2 years of writing JS to remember the syntax for a switch statement. Sometimes you'll remember something the first time you read it, and sometimes it'll take 20 times for it to sink in. As long as you can make the code work nobody cares how you got the information.

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## Log everything

Stay curious! `console.log` anything you don't understand to see what it is