Thread:Pecoes/@comment-4674838-20120427024735/@comment-50.34.41.115-20120427155647

Okay, I located and started using the console. I've actually been there all along, I just never clicked on the Console tab. I've been using the Elements tab, mainly to look up what classes are attached to which HTML tags and to look up CSS rules. I'm actually a bit more comfortable with HTML and CSS since I have more practice in that area. I do have w3schools bookmarked and I visit there quite often. Quite handy, as I do like GUIs -- what I'm working on right now for fun is an add-on to my Wikia rail in Oasis.

But yes, thanks for the note about the console. I found it and started playing around with it. Also, I had no problem entering longer code into the Chrome console (e.g. copy/pasting a couple hundred lines from my wikia.js and running it in the console worked fine for me). This will help me out a lot for testing purposes. I think I'll also look into getting a JavaScript IDE. That thought actually never occured to me before for some reason, so thanks for bringing it up.

As for the note about learning JS as a language though, I still find it very confusing. Variables not having types, and not being able to use OOP makes it harder for me to approach a problem. It's just very different from everything I'm used to. It seems like my knowledge about data types, data structures and the OOP approach to things is almost completely invalidated by JavaScript, and without that firm foundation, I quickly become lost -- and so my only recourse seems to be research, trial and error, repeat.