37. Conclusion

Well, now you’ve done it! You just couldn’t stop binge reading and now you are nearing the end. How does it feel knowing that you won’t have any more new content to look forward to until the next season?

Anyway, if you’ve been following along from the very beginning, you’ll agree that we covered a lot of ground. We started with this:

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<script>
  console.log("hello, world!");
</script>

We ended up with examples and snippets that had many more lines of more complex, useful, and far cooler code.

The thing you should remember is that writing code is easy. Writing elegant code that actually solves a problem is hard. This was best captured by one of my favorite lines from Scarface where Tony Montana delivered the following line (exact wording may be off a bit...it’s hard to understand him sometimes, as you know if you’ve seen the film):

This book is all about the basics. The way you go from the basics to the next step is by continuing to write code, trying out new things, and learning more along the way. This book described all the various tools and provided short examples of how they fit together help you build small things. It’s up to you to take this knowledge and apply it towards building all the cooler non-small things that you often see associated with JavaScript. If you are feeling up for it, take a look at some of the more involved tutorials and examples on https://www.kirupa.com.

So with that...see you all later, and feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] or find me on Facebook and Twitter (@kirupa). Like I mentioned in the introduction, I enjoy hearing from readers such as you, so don’t be shy about contacting me. If you have any questions (big or small), take a moment and post on https://forum.kirupa.com.

Also, I know you have a lot of choices in books for learning JavaScript. Thank you for choosing this book and allowing me to live vicariously through your code editor.

Cheers,