How do I get an instructor to respond?

Actually, I DID do that originally. I had to contact Support to get an actual response.

Your answer still misses the main point: up until this point, although I know the OR operator having done JS courses in places other than Treehouse (I'm just slagging through the Front End Web Dev course for points and to get to the things I haven't learned), the OR operator has NOT actually been taught in the JS Foundations course.

So again, you've provided an answer which does not fit in the context of the lesson.

I think what is missing here is that you guys don't seem to understand that throwing out an answer that says "well here's a way to do it" but doesn't remain in context ANSWERS the question, but leaves us just as confused.

The core of the issue here isn't this particular question but actually two-fold:

1) Jim Hoskins' form of instruction is a mess; he jumps all over, includes ways to NOT do something but still spends 3 or 4 minutes explaining how to NOT do it, and is generally bad at explaining what he is doing and why.... and

2) The JS Foundations course is clearly out of sync with the required material to complete the challenges.

So the question is, do you need to revamp the JS Foundations course questions to match the videos, or are the videos inadequate to provide the skills needed once you reach that point in the course?

Up until this particular track, I've been pretty happy with my experience at TH. At this point, especially after reading of others on this forum with the same frustrations with the same course, and then doing a quick Google search and finding many others who left TH due to what they described as a "mess of a JS course" (posts from over a year ago included), I have to ask if my money might be spent better elsewhere.

If you can't explain the basics of JavaScript and understand the difference between teaching and telling (to be clear: just giving an answer with no explanation - such as your use of the OR operator - is telling) then I'm questioning what my hard-earned money is getting me.

I get it: there's many ways to do things. But if you're teaching a course, then the course should contain the tools and teach the skills needed to pass the required challenges and those things should fit together in a way that results in learning.

I don't feel like I'm LEARNING JS with your method.

Hi Chris Shaffer

Thanks for your feedback. We are revamping this course. In fact, we are currently creating a series of in-depth JavaScript courses which includes a series of basic and advanced JavaScript classes covering fundamental JavaScript programming concepts.

Next on the roadmap -- Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript -- will be released within the next two weeks.

My very own JavaScript basics course, which does cover basic operators like the logical OR operator will be filming next week, and will be out early in October. It will replace JavaScript Foundations.

I'm sorry for your frustration with this course.