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JavaScript

mark scholes
mark scholes
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Is there a place to leave feedback on this course?

Hey guys.

I have just finished this introduction to node.js course and wish to give some feedback but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to do this.

As I cannot find the relevant place to post this I will post it here. Could someone either direct me to where it should be posted or else move it over.

This course is a mess. This course states that it is intended to introduce us to node, it completely fails to do so. Additionally, for the first time in my web development learning experience I want to pack it all in and do something else. Far too much was crammed into the course, with very little being explained. I have gone through one of a number of Andrew's courses previously and they have been painful experiences, most noticeably the Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript course, which I haven't been able to finish. Andrew many well be a good teacher for those who already understand what is being done and why, but for the beginners (who thought they were moving towards the intermediate level) he is a nightmare. He constantly uses methods and approaches to javascript that had not been previously mentioned without giving more than a passing explanation of what he is doing. What is worse is there is never a, 'if you don't know what I am doing there will be resources in the teachers notes' or a link to a video where the concept is explained. I was left feeling like a moron as everything was presented as if I should understand what is going on and most of the time I was clueless. Constantly he did something entirely new, gave no explanation and then said AWESOME, like we should be cheering along with him because 'it all makes sense' during this course. This is incredibly disheartening.

Can you guys please get someone else to redo this course. I don't have anything against the guy personally but learning from him is not remotely enjoyable. Maybe save him for the end of the course, he seems to be great a showing the holes in our knowledge but he should not be doing the introduction to a new topic. Especially such an important one.

I looked at the courses to come in this track and was devastated to find that he is also teaching: build a site with node, npm basics, understanding closures, and build a REST API. All of these are vital to understand and will introduce new ideas. Andrew really isn't the guy to be doing those.