Needed to learn javascript in 3 hours - would not recommend

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if i pull this off i'm never gonna procrastinate again i'm working with kenji and forest knight on a subscriber leaderboard project and my task was to use javascript to get youtube comments from the youtube api check out the links to canon 4's video in descriptions for more project details but back to the task at hand i don't really know javascript and instead of taking the week that i had to complete the task i obviously instead decided to binge watch anime why are you like this tina and i also thought to myself i probably don't want to piss off these people right well the impeding doom began a set in and i felt a massive wave of anxiety and regret and i thought to myself ah yes finally i am motivated enough to get started so as reality set in more and more i realized that there's actually no way that i can properly learn javascript in three hours let alone also write the script to get the youtube comments from the api so the first thing i did was to see if i can procrastinate learning javascript a little bit longer and see if i can steal some codes from the internet after some advanced googling i looked at some of the sample scripts from the youtube api it felt another wave of anxiety panic and regret why are there so many brackets and weird aero things why do code samples never do exactly what i need to do and then i thought maybe someone did it on youtube i made a tutorial on it good thinking tita so i crossed my fingers and searched on youtube and there was good news and bad ones the good news is that i had better luck on youtube and seems like people have indeed used the api in javascript the bad news though is that for some reason everybody overachieved and made entire apps with oauth and everything else as well okay but that's something right i thought i could probably just steal the bits of code that had to do with pulling the data from the api part but unfortunately the javascript is all embedded in html and css and the apps that people were building were really confusing to me because like i said i don't actually know what's happening in the javascripts two hours to go well i guess it's time to learn the spaces of javascript i start out by generally understanding javascript's high level characteristics i learned that it's an object-oriented scripting language dynamically typed and syntax is similar to c explains the dom brackets and is intricately linked to web development explains why people keep building apps so understanding these characteristics about javascript was extremely helpful thankfully i do have experience with java python and c and since it has traits that are similar to these languages it gives me a good context for javascript the next thing to do is to learn the syntax just enough so that i can start declaring variables manipulating data structures using loops and making and using functions i figured that should be enough so that a combination of the official documentation and bits of youtube video tutorials should get me through i hope so i did that [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one hour remaining if i pull this off i'm never gonna procrastinate again i promise i lied to myself okay okay so now i at least understand what the guiding tutorial is doing but i still don't know how the front end and backhand actually link together for this app that this guy is building so at around the i don't see like 45 minute mark i just said screw it and i just built the guy's app all the way up to the point where he's pulling data from the api and thankfully i know enough javascript at this point so i was able to tease out the part that has to do with pulling the data 10 minutes remaining [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] after a productive meeting i felt an immense sense of relief and i promised myself i would never procrastinate p.s you should check out ken's video for what the leaderboard project is about and why we're doing this you should also check out forrest video on the tech staff and all the details on how he's building a leaderboard he actually knows javascript unlike me so i promise he'll be far more educational see you guys in the next video