Getting lost now

Thanks for the response Felipe.

Yea, I took a break and am now going back over what I have learned to further cement it in an alternative way to what I did the first time and it seems to be helping. I will never get discouraged as I love this stuff!

Thanks again for the support!

I know it has been months since this was posted, but I wanted to comment in case anyone else is feeling the same. It's encouraging to know I am not alone.

Your problems here are EXACTLY the same as mine. I too find the learning curve has gotten to be too much, and in my opinion I would have felt this way sooner if it weren't for the fact I have some (very basic) previous experience with Java. I have also gotten to the point where I don't understand the code challenges and have actually resorted to skipping them and quickly watching the rest of the videos to make a note of any new code. I plan to begin from the beginning and work through again very slowly, as clearly there are things I must have misunderstood. This is very discouraging as I feel like I'm going backwards. My code too is riddled with errors I can't seem to fix as all the different classes/methods are one huge blur to me and I can't remember what half the code is doing while I work on other parts of it. I wish there was a complete copy of the code so far that I could go through to see what I have done differently to make so many errors.

For some reason I feel like the for each loop was not described well. The way it has been used here confuses me (I will rewatch the videos a few more times and compare it to descriptions elsewhere to help with this).

Also I think the introduction to basic concepts of java was a bit rushed...at this point I still am not sure of the differences between methods and classes, what variables can be used where, what variables should be passed in as parameters, and why bother using private and public...

To be honest I think some of these were perhaps explained well but moved on from too quickly and so were forgotten too fast. Right now I need more of a solid understanding in the basic concepts and less working step by step through code. Step by step worked well learning CSS and HTML but here notso much. If anything there should be more coding exercises (which need to be better and more explicitly worded ). I solved this by trying to code solutions of my own first then watching the video.

I got stuck on the last code challenge also, I must have missread it as I thought it wanted me to check if the first char was 'm' and make the second char uppercase so I was messing around trying to alter the string passed in to make the second char uppercase rather than just validating it! in the end I looked at the forums and found what someone did to get passed the challenge which I am not really confident I would have got because I did look at the java docs and didnt realise from there you can check out a character from a string with indexes, so I must have forgot something so im going back over the vids, making notes this time!