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- Oh right, you're still here. As we wrap up, I wanted to tell you a short story about my learning journey with JavaScript for some inspiration as you embark on your own learning journey. All the way back when I started working on the web, JavaScript was something we really didn't use all that much, partially because it wasn't all that useful, and partially because it was very tricky to use. When years later I did start adding JavaScript to my sites, it was usually through jQuery or some other helper library, and it was still limited to minor interactions and features. To be honest, I was actively resisting JavaScript for a very long time because it seemed way too abstracted from what I thought of as the real work of the web, writing proper semantic HTML and CSS. That all changed when I realized I could use JavaScript to do things that were very hard or even impossible to do using HTML and server side frameworks like PHP.…

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