wow can anyone relate to my feelings of relief?

spoiler: this is a lesson in never giving up.

So if you're on the front end development track maybe you feel like me. You just finished Dave's javascript course feeling slightly banged up, but you managed to learn quite a bit, do the final challenge and are feeling pretty pumped for jquery basics.

Then jquery basics happens next on the track and you're pretty much lost most of the lessons. After getting pretty banged up you finally make it to the end of the course just glad you figured out the quizzes (which are somewhat simple compared to the course itself).

You push on and discover Andrew Chalkley is the teacher AGAIN for the next part of the track ( Interactive Web Pages ). Part of you wonders if this is the final blow before you give up computer programming forever and become an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania.

But Andrew is a little different this time. Animations are abound and everything is explained in epic detail. The window and DOM become mere silly putty for you to mold into whatever your mind desires. Objects, properties and methods FINALLY click.

Part of you wishes this came BEFORE jquery basics. But then again, some part of you feels the track was done this way intentionally.

Just because you don't understand every little detail on these tracks doesn't mean you can't become proficient at programming. Keep pushing on and the pieces will fall into place. Sometimes the frustration comes when they don't fall into place in the order you expect them to. But it will all come together, if you keep showing up. Thanks Andrew!