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I'm so lost through every single one of Andrew's courses.

The beginning of this course (The first few videos), there are several animations and he's logging 2+2 in the console. He's going over very simple concepts and building up to the window and DOM and helping you understand the DOM is just basically one massive Object.

Then the animations disappear and he goes back to the way he teach jquery basics. Comments littered everywhere on the workspace. Most of which get cut/pasted somewhere else or even deleted. It's a mess to watch. This is the first course where the quiz had a "hint" that was actually the answer. ('Did you use queryselector and target the ('a')? ).

It's like i'm just watching someone working on a project outloud. Someone new to javascript won't learn how to build an app this way. But the saving grace here is you spend a small fee a month which allows you to try codeacademy pro or Lydia courses and not break the bank. I have had college classes like this where $500 later i've learned nothing and can't afford other options.

New students need animations to explain whats happening and better written code with comments that are not all over the screen and constantly copied/pasted or deleted.

I haven't quite completed this course yet, but I want to say a few things about it because like many, I find it difficult to understand.

One of the main issues here is that we as students are both 1.) learning new ideas and 2.) solving problems... at the same time! That's difficult, no doubt about it.

In particular, it's not obvious how the functions we're writing interact together once there are so many going at the same time. The smart way to teach this would be to be very clear what each function is for and repeatedly refer back to why we are writing each line of code, and what it does in the larger context of the project. Like, over and over again.

I don't mind being hit over the head by WHY if it means I will understand in the end (and learn more about calling functions within functions in the process...).

I'm going through this course for the second time and I've found that it makes it easier to take lots of breaks, take notes, think about what he's attempting to do with each step. I do find it difficult when he scans through MDN. I keep wanting to hear his thought process when selecting methods and properties to use in this project. I know this will get easier with experience and practice, but for this type of course it may help to have a cheat sheet of methods, properties, etc. so we can get a fuller grasp of what is going on and not be distracted from the huge amount of info on MDN. Just my two cents...

Things get so much simpler with jQuery, but it's not a bad idea to learn first pure javascript even if it looks too complicated.

wow! no that is good in anyway shape or form, but I'm so relief that I'm not the only one finding the explanations confusing. I have some experience with JS and I do think from the planning of this project the amount of complexity introduced is too much. In my case, I would start with just trying to solve ONE thing at the time. So maybe I'll concentrate on just adding a task and that's it. You can always refactor and make things more organized later. Yes, you could have a higher overview of your overall planning but I think he invested too much time on that part. Binding task events was very confusing.