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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Modifying Elements

Nick Huemmer
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Nick Huemmer
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Posted by Nick Huemmer
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Nick Huemmer
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 26,840 Points

The last few coding challenges have not been corresponding well with their preceding lessons.

I'm becoming very frustrated with the last few coding challenges as seem to be testing my internet research skills more than what I've actually been learning in the preceding lessons.

I've found answers for certain solutions, but the answers don't seem to correspond much with the material that was just learned in the lessons leading up the challenges.

I'm really interested in learning and understanding JavaScript, but this doesn't seem to help with my deep learning as the challenges are building on complex concepts that as a student I haven't learned yet. This is quite frustrating, as it takes a lot more time to trial and error through different solutions and I ultimately have to search for an answer that is often much different than any solution that I'm able to concoct based on the extensive notes I've taken during each lesson.

Shouldn't these lessons just be testing our understanding of what was just learned in previous lessons and not more complicated and abstract concepts in JavaScript?

Don't we get to exercise our research and application of more complex solutions enough in the projects that we complete?

1 Answer

Robert Manolis
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Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Robert Manolis
Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Nick, thanks for reaching out about this. Yes, ideally, the course code challenges should map to the lessons in the preceding videos. With one exception being in cases of review for earlier sections in the course. And another exception being course requisites. Often, courses will recommend that other courses have been taken before starting this new course. So a code challenge may require knowledge taught in a requisite course that was perhaps not covered explicitly in the current course.

If you can provide examples of specific situations where the challenge was reaching beyond what one should know at that point to be able to successfully complete the challenge, we can review those courses and challenges for opportunities for improvement. We're always on the lookout for ways to continue to improve what we do here at Treehouse. :smiley: