How can a trainee better understand JavaScript?

Question

JavaScript

Guys, hello everyone! Yesterday a guy came to our studio - an intern who recently graduated from high school. Naturally, as a front-end developer, they assigned me to teach javascript, and he seems to know html with css quite well. The guy is not stupid, but, unfortunately, he does not know English - this is practically the whole problem. As far as I understand, now he knows more or less the base: types, functions, arrays, knows how objects are created, understands what closures are, scopes, but when I give him some example, he cannot decide, although he knows the theory .

I advised him to study learn.javascript.ru, but he turned out to be already familiar with this resource and took all his theoretical knowledge from this site, but he could not solve 70% of the tasks. Going to learn.javascript.ru, I realized that many tasks are really not for beginners. Take, for example, the section "Functions and Closures": written clearly, lexically professional, powerful problems at the end, but even so, the presentation and problems themselves are not for beginners - this is 100%. Personally, I started with resources like treehouse + codeschool, then finished off with a couple of books from o'Reilly and ninja js. And learn.javascript.ru is a great resource for developers who are more or less familiar with algorithms (Ilya loves to give mathematical problems) and want to improve their knowledge, but it’s pointless to teach and try to understand a beginner so much at once, therefore, friends, if anyone faced a similar problem, who had interns, tell me how to be? How to teach him further, given that I'm not going to sit with him like at school, but I'm only ready to check and advise - after all, development is more important.

The initial goal is to learn how to write bicycles, like: animations, animated sliders by timing, sorting tables by criteria, a little ajax. Perhaps it is not worth delving into the language for this?
Thanks in advance for any answer!

Answer 1

Damn why no one takes me as an intern =(

Answer 2

Try video tutorials from Sorax
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL363QX7S8Mf...
Although, apparently, the trainee first needs to learn algorithmization, flowcharts, branches, loops, etc.

Answer 3

a guy came to the studio - an intern who had recently graduated from high school.

Well, one of my friends...
You are wrong. What then is "for beginners"? connect plugins to jquery? If you take the "Functions and Closures" section, there are the basics of the basics. Just if something is not clear - go ahead google. I met an incomprehensible word - google, wiki, dictionaries, google translate, etc.

Answer 4

Repeatedly go through the base, different teachers present the same material in different ways.
Who knows practical video lectures on Javascript?
Well, with practice, you will help, sort out a few works with him, show how you would do it.