code challenges acting very buggy

i am running into a similar problem and it is getting very frustrating.

doing the jquery section taught by andrew -- by far the very worst content i have been exposed to -- up til now the lectures have been easy enough to follow, i don't know if jquery is orders of magnitude harder than html or css or javascript, but i have gone thru the lectures 2 and 3 times and am still as lost as i was when i began. i have had to consult the boards on pretty much every challenge (often cutting and pasting correct code just to advance the challenge) because the videos do such a poor job explaining the material. to boot, and the real reason i am submitting this report is that on the second and third parts of the challenge i am getting the "part 1 no longer works " message when attempting parts 2 and beyond, even though the new code has F-all to do with the part 1 content . troubleshooting my code is difficult enough w/o the interface also acting hinky.

Paul,

I'm sorry you are experiencing more code challenge issues. Can you give me a link the the particular code challenge that's having the problem?

Hi Paul Ozag

Sorry to hear you're having frustrations. I'm currently working on Beginner content to ease people in to programming. You're right, jQuery/JavaScript is in order of magnitude harder than HTML and CSS. HTML and CSS are more like "recipe" languages, put a div here with this style to accomplish this visual look or effect etc. "Build an Interactive Website" was also an advanced island so if you had no previous experience in programming/JS you'd have found it incredibly hard. We're aware of the pains that students are going through and we're going to make it better.

Now when you get the "part 1 no longer works" errors it tends to be because of 2 reasons:

1. The new code that you've introduced has a syntax error (a missing } or something like that) and our engine cannot read the code anymore.
2. The code introduced has changed the code from part 1

I think in this case it could be 1.

If you copy and paste in your code with 4 spaces indenting it it will to turn it into a code block.

Thanks for your understanding and patience and if there's any questions that's what we're here for.
Andrew

thanks for getting back -- the coding challenge ended up working successfully so i just left it and moved on. i am still experiencing a lot of frustration w/ this latest section however... i try to repeat each section until i understand it and can pass all of the quizzes/coding challenges w/o guessing or not being sure if the code is going to pass b4 i hit submit. i have a beginner's understanding of programming, but have by no means any real experience in coding in the field.

as i progressed thru all the courses so far, HTML, CSS, and javascript, i left each with the feeling of "i kinda get this and with some tinkering could probably get this to work on my own." in this latest jquery section however, the idea of using jquery in a webpage i am building scares the shit outta me. i have gone over the original lessons 4 times and only through reading thru every coding challenge exercise on the forums and backfilling what other students are explaining and reintegrating that info back into the original lecture does it even begin to make sense. i am four minutes into the next section on plugins and absolutely and thoroughly lost. it's as if andrew is showing another experienced programmer what he is doing rather than someone who is seeing all of this for the first time. he whips thru the cutting and pasting of code downloaded from github so fast that i am having to pause the video second by second and then backing it up in 5 second intervals to actually have a clue what is going on, and he is doing this WHILE he is explaining what the effects are.
i have taught beginners in many different disciplines and know that someone who is brand new to a subject is lucky to absorb one or two brand new concepts concurrently... tops. too much, too fast w/o a logical progression of new content. i am not sure if the jquery section belongs further down in the material that you are spoon feeding to us, but as it stands now i am debating slogging thru dozens more of andrew's byzantine lectures.