Our company is just starting to utilize vRO and the majority of the administration/workflow building will be done by me. My knowledge heavily resides in datacenter administration (vSphere, View, UCS, Nexus). We don't utilize scripts, PowerCLI, or any sort of automation currently. Much of our work is done manually, which isn't very productive. I do have a small amount of programming basics from college, but nothing much. I have started playing around with workflows and just getting familiar with vRO in general. I have come to realize many of the things we will want to automate are going to require a decent amount of JavaScript since many of the default workflows won't meet our needs. I know we can use the defaults as a jump of point and customize from there. I just find myself a bit overwhelmed at times and it becomes discouraging. I have started reading a JS book to become a little more familiar with it, but I was curious how everyone else learned JS and even understanding which APIs are the correct ones to use. I know I can search through the APIs and read about them, I just get a little lost sometimes. Did some of you guys who didn't come from a programming background find this a bit overwhelming?
I know there isn't any secret answer to learning vRO but just playing with it and doing my research. I guess I am looking to see what some of you have used for your best learning resource.
Any help appreciated!