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Sean May
9,145 PointsPasting code without explanations makes this video hard to follow
This is less of a question and more of a statement on the teaching in the video. Simply pasting in whole lines of jQuery code without explanation makes following along with this tutorial really frustrating, and the fact that the teacher moves on to the browser preview a second later after pasting the code had me pausing and rewinding the video multiple times just to see what just happened.
The whole point of these tutorials is to work along with the lessons, it's why Workspaces exists. It's not incredibly helpful just to watch the code get pasted in and then watch it work in the browser.
3 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! Treehouse staff generally love to get feedback from students. I would suggest that you contact help@teamtreehouse.com and write to them what you said here. That being said, it would also be immensely helpful for them if you could send a link to the video in question and possibly even give the minutes and seconds where this occurs.
Best of luck with your studies!
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 PointsI can't be sure without looking at a link to the video but I'm guessing this is about the Introduction to jQuery course which was taught by a guest teacher.
Now I agree the things you've mentioned in your post don't necessarily make a good User experience but each teacher has a different style for teaching the code and probably has different instructions for getting the video edited and fit for posting on the website.
What I do when I;m not finding a video as easy to follow is to slow the video down and even pause it from time to time. to get code copied across. I agree though that code without (or without much) explanation isn't necessarily helpful. :-)
Sean May
9,145 PointsThank you both for the answers! Yes, it's in the Intro to jQuery section, specifically the Accessing and Modifying Attributes video.
I've moved on past that video and it seems like the teacher is now typing out the code consistently, so this is probably not a huge issue, but it did give me a little frustration in trying to follow along.
Also, I am totally happy to see guest teachers on Treehouse! It's nice to have a diverse array of industry pros teach this stuff in addition to the Treehouse staff. I think in this case it might just be a slight mis-match in teaching styles compared to what I'm used to from most Treehouse tutorials.