timhargis

I just recently finished CodeCademy's JavaScript track. I'm assuming this is a small % of the knowledge really needed to be able to actually build shit. I went on CoderByte (http://coderbyte.com) and tried some of their "Easy" challenges and I'm struggling with some of the basic ones because it is stuff that was not taught on CodeCademy. The 2nd question was to write code to return the factorial of a number. Is this really basic shit, or did I just run into a weird question that is not very common in real world programming? I haven't taken higher level math in probably 15 years so I was concerned about this going into this process of learning JS but numerous people told me it wasn't that important. Are there other resources I should be learning from? What do you recommend to improve in the early stages? I'm trying to learn enough to get into a program like Hack Reactor.