Am I moving too quickly?

While you're running through the lessons open up a second workspace to play around with the bits of code that you're learning. Try to the write code in your second workspace from memory as much as you can, and deviate from the lesson plan (change colors, sizes of things, spacing, etc.).

Once you notice that you're not referring back to the lessons to write your code correctly, You'll start to feel more confident that it's sticking in you're brain.

Hey there Isam Al-Abbasi ! Speaking from experience, there are a lot of frustrations when you are first learning to code. It's literally learning a new language. There are intricacies that are very difficult to remember, and rules that are very hard to learn the first time going over them. With treehouse there are, at times, frustrations with the content. I felt like the teachers went too quickly, or that the content should have been updated.

However, I also speak from experience that none of that matters. What DOES matter is that you keep pushing forward and don't let anything... ANYTHING stop you from learning how to code. If it's really something you want to do, find a way to do it. I don't care if it takes HOURS of searching around on google... figure it out. I started learning to code about a year ago without any experience... and now I work as a web-developer for an advertising agency. I went through every possible frustration in the book, and at times I did feel like giving up.

I can hate on Treehouse for several things that I'm not going to list here, but at the end of the day they were the one's that got me to where I am. It's a good company and they have a lot of great tools for you to use to learn what you want to learn.

Stick with it. Find inspiration and motivation in your desire to know what you don't know. If you do those things, you can't fail.

I can heartily recommend the Oracle Java tutorials in conjunction with this course. Oracle's tutorials are really in depth but lack in examples, quizzes and exercises, whereas this course can't go in as much depth but gives you examples, quizzes, and challenges. I think that they work really well together. I also find that the challenges for this course are genuinely more challenging than most of the other courses on Treehouse. Though frustrating at times, when I figure out how to do them, I feel great afterwards! I am slowly feeling more comfortable programming Java on my own instead of JavaScript despite having taken more Treehouse courses on the latter. In that sense, being challenged and encouraged on with this course is helping me make the choice between front end dev or being a full-out Java coder in favor of the latter. Honestly, if you think you are going too fast through these courses, I recommend "slowing" yourself down with some of the Oracle tutorials ;)