Should you stop reading a book if you don't understand it well?

Question

JavaScript

I recently read the book "JS for Children" and decided to start reading "Eloquent JS", but in the process I began to notice that it was a bit confusing and difficult for me and I thought, maybe stop reading it or continue and in the end it might will give a good understanding. But you have to suffer!

Answer 1

If it doesn’t go at all, then you shouldn’t force yourself - knowledge is not driven by force and you can develop an aversion to reading. Plus Eloquent JS itself ... for an amateur.
Ideally, you should practice more than read, as real problems motivate you to read books. And finding solutions to pressing problems in books gives additional motivation.
For books, try Head First Learning Javascript
It seems to me that this is quite the next book after JS for children.

Answer 2

Maybe it's the way the author presents the information.
If there are books by different authors on the same topic, I try to read another, with a different style of presentation and whom I understand better.

Answer 3

I usually read for pleasure, if I don’t understand something, I don’t even try to understand, I just leave it in my head in the form of information without understanding, and the brain works in such a way that when the case described in the book occurs in real life, it immediately throws out the appropriate , previously misunderstood information, and you immediately understand - yeah, that's what it was about.
The main thing is that everything should be fun.

Answer 4

Depends on the depth of your suffering. If it does not go at all, then pick up some intermediate between "for children" and this one.

Answer 5

I am not a fan of reading, everything is mastered in practice with me - what is not clear, I will find it in Google or ask the curators for advice here. But if I read, I would probably finish what I started and then, when the knowledge reached the point where I began to understand what and how, I would return and go over the most incomprehensible moments.

Answer 6

I usually do that. If I'm stuck, I switch to something else. Then it just comes.

Answer 7

Most likely, you have not fully understood the terminology, therefore, due to incomprehensible words, the text itself is also incomprehensible.
Understand the terms and everything will be fine.