Has anyone else struggled with this course due to the style of teaching?

I agree that the course is challenging from the content and the delivery. There is a lot of reference to the MDN (jumping screens) which is very rapid fire. At times a review of the examples from the MDN page provide greater insight but the relationship to the code that is written is a little disparate. At the end of each video I find myself in a struggle to keep up just to complete the code for the next video (even with pausing).

I don't think Andrew does a terrible job but believe some edits to help explain the code would really enhance the learning experience. It would lengthen the course but it is a happy trade-off. Perhaps simplify the project? Probably need an in between course after Dave's wonderful Javascript Basics for several of us. That might be the answer?

Quite frankly, he's a great teacher when it comes to SQL. I never had any problems learning the databases course. As multiple people have already said, though, Dave McFarland is a super good JavaScript teacher and can explain things a bit simpler.

Agreed. This is the first project that I skipped through mostly because his teaching style. I have done to-do lists in JS a few times now and they are quite simple, but the way he's doing it seems confusing.

For people who are still struggling with to-do lists in JS and jQuery, try googling practicalJS. Gordon does a good job explaining each step and adding features step by step.

Not to turn this into a pity party, but yeah, I wish there was a bit more explanation in regards to the concepts underpinning why he's doing things the way he is. Not just "how" this way in comparison to "how" another way. I do find repeating the videos helpful so I do think the course matter is complicated enough to warrant some difficulty and that should not be discounted.

Yea... he basically just says what he's doing. Doesn't really say what everything means. Dave McFarland is pretty good. I think Nick Pettit is a good example of analyzing while doing.

I think this is partially due to the fact that both of Andrew's courses thus far (where I am in the Front End Developer track) are the two most complicated and difficult courses we've encountered.

His teaching style feels more like "Let's learn it together" (except he already knows the information) rather than "Here's what you should do and how to do it."

In my experience, it is much easier to learn when someone teaches you exactly what to do and how to do it, but learning in that way doesn't often encourage you to think for yourself. Having Andrew reference the documentation a lot (which Guil does in the Bootstrap course very well, might I add) kinda reinforces the notion that the documentation is critically important to remember. I also learned about other things unrelated to the project just by having him talk about it in the documentation.

I'll say it's not a teaching style that works for everyone. We all want things to be given to us in easy-to-understand projects and lessons, but JavaScript is a "big boy/girl" language, so to speak, and it's not all going to be easy to understand even if someone spells it out for us. Multiple times in this course I found myself wondering how something worked, but it's not because Andrew did a poor job of explaining it. Sometimes it's just complicated. I'd pause the video, maybe run it back 20-30 seconds, watch it again, then read over the code, and it would click in my head and I'd make a note of it in my notes of how I would explain it to myself.

I do wish the code challenges were a little harder, but I think we have to remember 1) Our boss/employer is going to tell us what they want from us on a page, so we'll have a general idea of what to do, and 2) Documentation, documentation, documentation. One of the things about Treehouse that has stuck with me the whole time was when they said even the best programmers have to look stuff up. Nobody's immune to a mental block. We're all here to help each other. Keep it up, everyone!

I have to say, unfortunately, that I agree. I struggled with jQuery so much and this course as well. For jQuery, I have resorted to using Codecademy as a study supplement. I have just finished this course a bit unsure, so I will try to download all the code, study it myself and try to do it from scratch on my own.

I am also finding this part of the course difficult. I'm following the front-end tech degree program so I can't speak for anyone else in terms of how this compares to other topics of a similar difficulty. However, I feel that whilst other parts of the course are challenging, there are not as many steps that require this level of logical thinking that I am realising are much more associated with what is often considered "real programming".

What I would add, is that the challenges that are set to test us on what we have picked up require the use of just one line of code, where as I think the real level of challenge in the work is understanding the logical steps and how to go about setting them up. I have passed the tests but think I would be lost if told to solve this problem from scratch with no guidance. I hate to be someone only delivering problems without solutions, but I feel like I need to be asked how to solve a similar problem and what pseudocode would work.

I simply cant follow his teaching methods, most of the time its hard to understand what and why he is doing, it feels like he is writing all the code needed for the project simultaneously and not step by step, will not watch another of Andrew's tutorials.