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Ryan Bend
Ryan Bend
5,951 Points
Posted by Ryan Bend
Ryan Bend
5,951 Points

"Adding Players to the Scoreboard" is pretty confusing

This isn't really a question, just an observation. This video is 17 minutes long and covers quite a bit of terrain. I don't know if it's the way he explains it but after telling us that data flows downhill in react we suddenly start sending it back up? So we type a name into the "AddPlayerForm" component input, store it in the state, then push it back up to the Application to add it to the players state?

I've re-watched this video like 4 or 5 times now and I'm still struggling with this, I just think it would be better served breaking it down into smaller chunks and being a little more thorough.

Or I could just be an idiot.

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john larson
john larson
16,594 Points
john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

Hi Ryan, I'm sure your not an idiot, but programming can make us feel like that sometimes. I have a lot of videos and concepts that I have to go over several times. I just checked who the teacher is for that course. I really like him, but in the console course he taught I found myself pausing the video and rewinding more than once. Sometimes teachers seem to forget they are teaching and they kind of gloss over stuff like "oh this is just blah blah" then they move on and it's like "wait, that mumbly part sounded important!" :D