Thread:Starfleet Academy/@comment-4674838-20120915085226/@comment-4674838-20120915095420

If you are learning JavaScript and want to take it seriously (like you want to "learn programming itself", not just "learn to do cool things for a wiki"), I'd recommend maybe getting a textbook from the library, or looking up tutorials online (the w3schools JavaScript tutorial is OK ish) to help you along the way. Professional programmers will use software known as an Integrated development environment, so if you'd want to get one for JavaScript and definitely code in that. (And then you can publish completed scripts to a wiki if you want, but it would be important to actually use the IDE for active development.)

If on the other hand you're really just more interested in wiki editing and maybe picking up a bit of JavaScript to do cool things for a wiki in your spare time, that kind of serious approach might not be for you. In that case, you can just take things at your own pace :)