JQuery Basics Explanations

This has really been tough for me but I have found the codecademy explanations on the code more clear and I hope to finish with codecademy and then come back here again and repeat everything and see if I can now understand.

You're not going to like to hear this: It's going to be hard. HTML/CSS is quite easy to learn because a lot of it is self-explanatory and doesn't get too involved. Javascript and all 'real' coding languages require a lot of time and effort. You'll find yourself banging your head a lot as you improve but it gets better. My best advice is to read some books and articles on javascript, these video tutorials only give you a overall skip-over of specific cases and not so much on theory and most importantly 'why?'.

Honestly, it's better to get thrown into the deep end early on. Why? Because many people who try too much in easing their way into it will become much more frustrated later in comparison and quit as a result.

Just keep practicing and reading. It's how every self-taught programmer has done it before these video-series started!

Hi Jimmy, thanks for the list, i will look up those books as i am super serious about coding

True true true. It's not the content's difficulty, but how the lecturer explains confuses a lot. Like, he always spend a bunch of time checking documentation instead of telling us which to use. That is quite distracting as we barely have time to read examples and constructions, and even after reading one, he said "We don't need this, let's look down, oh, this would be useful". It's fine the first time you do so to tell us, checking documentation is a way of learning, but no point of checking every time in the teaching. As a lecturer, you should be well prepared for the class, saving students' time.

It happens in this video too, in the end he is debugging, finding the typo of "canSumbit". Well, that's three minutes of correcting your mistake, you can re video a new one!

Conclusion, he is not well prepared as CSS and HTML teachers are. If I could give ratings to courses, 2/5 for this one.

I agree that this whole course has been a letdown. Especially after the JavaScript Basics course was so useful. I have looked at the rest of the front end developer track and this guy teaches a lot of the courses, which has got me thinking about abandoning the track altogether.

No use wasting my time watching an instructor make mistakes, seem confused, and take long pauses while looking through documentation. You would think that if anyone in TeamTreehouse watched these videos, they wouldn't publish them. I guess I was wrong.

I had actually started reading outside Treehouse, and I found a source that has got the kind of explanations about jQuery that I wanted, and I think I am making pretty progress as things are becoming more clearer now, I guess like you say, i must just keep on coding and reading.

I haven't yet bought any books but I am going to do so soon. I also joined Codecademy Pro, which is a new feature there where you pay $19 a month and they have an excellent thread on jQuery basics which explains the ABC of it and it has solved most of my questions, but I will add on that with a text book as soon as I find a suitable recommendation. Do you know of any that I can buy online? If you do i would greatly appreciate the recommendation..

Thanks Jimmy!

@Dan Whiting , true, that's what I am doing right now, supplementing the jQuery here from other sources like Codecademy Pro, EdEx and Coursera platforms. It is becoming more clearer now. Good luck on your coding!

He is clearly ill-prepared for this lesson and ends up confusing us students instead. I'd give him a 1/5. Teamtreehouse, please perform quality checks on the lectures, especially for the more challenging topics.

Well, I am back again after going through java basics on codecademy and Oracle. I have decided to start this track all over again (was halfway through when I went for other sources). I hope this time around I will understand things - I think what I was lacking were the basics. So, see you around!