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M Glasser
10,868 PointsBetter guide to jQuery?
The JS track has been more or less great up until now... instructor quickly skims over concepts and constantly refers us to the jQuery documentation while barely explaining how things work. Entire sections of code get copied and pasted in quickly instead of piece by piece.. hardly any explanation of the syntax or how things are supposed to work. Seems like I'd have an easier time just going through the jQuery documentation rather than watching videos that tell me to go and do so. If anyone has a better tutorial that can help supplement that would be appreciated.
Cynthia Norwood
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,214 PointsI concur, see below
Derek Vha
10,452 PointsAgree, why are we paying subscription to be told 'go read xyz!'. I understand that reading documentation is part of learning but I'd appreciate some more in-dept videos, rather that short 2-4min videos that just barely touch the surface.
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Ari Misha
19,323 PointsHiya there! In my opinion, consulting docs for everything is the bet step to become a better programmer. I've learned Vuejs framework just from the docs. I mean i think its totally valid , i consider it a necessary step to become a good developer. Now , jQuery has these amazing well organized , well written and well explained docs. So why wouldnt you take advantage of that? Get in there , play around with methods given in the docs. Get your hands dirty. As far as Syntax goes, jQuery is mostly takes inspiration from css but written in JavaScript. If you've a decent knowledge of HTML, CSS and basic knowledge of JS, jQuery would be a breeze for ya.
~ Ari
M Glasser
10,868 PointsThanks for the vote of confidence dude! Got a little frustrated with that last course simply skimming the surface compared to the various in-depth JS fundamentals courses on here. But maybe it's just time to take the training wheels off and dig deeper into these concepts independently.
Cynthia Norwood
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,214 PointsI agree with M Glasser here. I am now on this section and finding this class a bit light on explanations. I need this stuff spoon fed to me like in my previous courses. I do get that we should go read the MDN for jQuery methods and other things discussed here but feel that more practice needs to be added to the jQuery sections so far. There is a quick/brief discussion then we just move on and my tiny brain is thinking wait? Did I get that?? I don't know because we did not really practice it too much here??? I need to "use" this stuff to understand it. Reading the MDN for me, just kind of says a lot but I am not quite sure how to actually apply it unless we are diving in deep here on Treehouse and typing out the code and trying to make it work in workspaces. I learn best by "doing" not reading....this is not to say that reading does not help, of course it does help a bit but my brain will not actually "know" something UNTIL I use it over and over and over again.
Cynthia Norwood
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,214 PointsWhat I mean to say is "Go practice" does not work for me. That's why I signed up for the Techdegree, I need a specific problem/project and someone to say, GO make this code do this. Not a general just go practice?? Go practice what???? To me that is way to vague and light and my brain just says oh well , lets move on to the next section.
stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 PointsWe certainly learn in different ways, and need to go with different approaches. I recommend you to send this feedback to Treehouse, it's easier for them to improve things if they know what to improve :)
You can do this here: help@teamtreehouse.com
I hope you find something that works for you, so that you don't miss out on the information in this course, good luck :)
Jonas
stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 PointsHi M,
I agree with Ari, and I think that's one thing this course wants to achieve, getting you comfortable using the documentation. I remember learning here with Treehouse and feeling that the documentation were something only the best could understand.
Then I got to this point in my track and while following the course I paused the video when it was time to find something, I tried to find it on my own first and then see if he went for what I did. This course made me realize the documentation wasn't so bad.
Learning to read the documentations is vital, so try to see it as something positive that the tutor had you go through it.
Good luck with your learning,
Jonas
Cynthia Norwood
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,214 PointsOK Jonas, done and done :-) Thank you for the suggestion.
Julien Rotundo
10,018 PointsJulien Rotundo
10,018 PointsI agree. I don't feel like the instructor is teaching anything with this one. All previous courses were great. This one feels very different. She's just copying and pasting code snippets too without explaining. Every quiz looks like it has subject matter I didn't see before.