I was working on a project today, and practicing. I feel like I am learning to code without relying on youtube tutorials and ai as much. I feel like I am learning to not ask ai for the code, but to google better questions. I feel like my research skills is getting better with googling better questions, looking in documentation a little more, and using other resources before I go to ai and ask it for the code. Which lately I haven't really been asking ai these past few days now for the code. I will tell it don't give me code, but I will ask it how do you code a feature like this, for example, "There is a drop down menu. How do you code a drop down menu , and make sure this is how you it is coded in real world applications and projects, then I will look at the code, study it, figure out what was done step by step and how to do it step by step, sometimes I ask the ai for the html code and css code of that JS code it gave me and post it in a different vs code window and go to the live server and test it. Which recently I opened a new VS Code window for testing code before adapting it to my project. Then I will look at the code and figure out how to adapt and change it to my own specific project, like I will change the variables, or anything else that needs to be changes in my project, I will have different variables, and anything that needs to be adapted for my project ,but I look at the code I tested and adapt it based on my variable. i write the code, and don't just copy and paste and adapt to my specific variables and anything else. I am learning how not to ask ai the code, but ask it how a feature is coded and adapt that feature to my own project, and also ask it if there is a concept I don't understand, but first I go to google and get the answer of how to write a specific code and then I adapt the answer or solutions on google to my specific project. I also try to search concepts in documentation, which I don't always find what I am looking for in documentation, but I feel like I kind of in these past few days been getting better at reading searching documentation. I try to go to google, documentation, and even youtube first before going to ai. When I do go to ai which I do use is I will ask it how is a certain feature is coded in real projects and real world applications and then test the code in different vs code window, look at what steps to take based on that, and then sometimes comment out just to see what each code mean or does, and adapt that in my project where my VS Code project is at. I go to ai last when I couldn't find the answer, but I try not to ask it for code for my specific project but just a general example of how to code a certain feature.

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I am starting over again in JavaScript because I realized and found out I didn't take my time and practice the basic concepts and fundamentals like I thought I was doing, and I see now that is important to practice the basic concepts and fundamentals and slow down. Today, I was practicing the basic concepts of JavaScript. I ran into an issue and solved it, and learned something new. I wanted to share what I learned. Today as I was practicing type casting/type conversion and trying to convert a string to a number, I wrote age = Number(age); for the age variable to convert it to a number. I also wrote gpa = Number(gpa); I was thinking to myself that I am writing it the way the tutorial is writing the code to convert data types. I finally figured out that it was because I placed the type conversions/type castings, age = Number(age); and gpa = Number(gpa); after the console.log. I learned the placement of where you put your type casting/type conversion affects whether you still get the same data type back in the console or if it changes to the data type you are converting it to. I also learned you refresh your browser after changing the position of the type conversions/casting because if you don't the browser will still give you back the same data type and not the converted data type you are trying to convert. I didn't know these 2 things until now as I am practicing the type version/type casting concept. I also was practicing textContent, writing sentences with template literals and curly braces, variables, data types. I also learned a lit but about Symbol data type and BigInt data type. I learned that we use Symbol data type mainly in objects, but I think they can be used in any other data type and anywhere. Symbols are used to create unique key so no properties or id or any values don't overwrite the other and they all have their own unique id. If you wanted to write two or more email or id even with the same description in the parenthesis, the Symbol will allow you to assign a unique key so no value or property overwrite each other and every value and property can all coexist together.

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