This course is absolutely horrible to understand. Can anyone suggest any external resources?

This course didn't need to be so confusing. I found courses on YouTube and Lynda.com that were much clearer and easier to follow. I also needed to supplement Andrew's JQuery course with books and outside videos.

I don't know if this will help. But it's my blog post about how I made sense of this course work. It's long, so be prepared! I went into micro-steps so that I could fully understand the lesson.

Cheers!

http://ryanscottbuchholtz.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-simple-to-do-list-in-javascript-isnt.html

Kalidh, completely agree with you: Andrew sucks big time compared to most other teachers at treehouse. What a shame cause this is important material... I hope we get as little as possible from Andrew in the future...

I agree with the sentiments. I find this course very unhelpful.

I can agree on most statements here. Though Andrew brings a good practice of using documentation to find answers, eh often uses phrases "take this, do this, go there, to accomplish this" without saying exactly what. I feel pretty confident in most stuff he is saying but even then sometimes i'm getting lost and lose attention to what hes is trying to say.

I already acquired useful skills and techniques from Andrew, but frankly I believe that I can understand what he is saying because I'm already working in IT and generally understand how stuff is working.

Andrew is actually great but he has to work on the way he expresses what he is doing, so absolute newbies can understand even if it take more time for the video.

I absolutely disagree about that this course is intended for intermediate guys etc. We have a track here and it has to be built the way i can understand each next stage easily. Real world practice should be gained after the track is done so I know what tool set I have, so when I design a website I think: Ok, here i will add some CSS to do this and that, maybe some animation, here i will add some JavaScript do accomplish this or that. But to thinks this way you have to know in general what tools are used for this and then master them.

everyone has there own learning styles. i think andrew is a good javascript teacher.

here is another good javascript resource http://jstherightway.org/

http://eloquentjavascript.net/ you may read this book.

Don't be afraid to pick up books and read them.

For programming to figure things out. Ask yourself what does this do?

Chalkers is easily the worst teacher on treehouse. It's night and day between him and literally any other professor on this website. To everyone else: you are doing a great job. Chalkers: I think you could use a little more training

You Don't Know JS is an AWESOME book and its free on Github (or you could pay for print copies). link https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

You could also try Javascript: The Good Parts, but you'd have to pay for the book.

And, for the record, I found Chalkers to be an awesome teacher. :) But to each his own!

Thanks for all the resources guys,

bobgoblin, thank you for the motivation and yes, as you said, at one point I thought I was going to throw in the towel, but then I visited codeschool and their JS roadtrip course was exceptional. Was able to learn a lot and helped me get through the JS challenges on here. Thanks once again guys!

http://nodeschool.io/#workshoppers you can learn from your console. LOLs.

Try eloquent javascript it's a free online book with practice it's a bit hard but youl fill like u npknow javascript way better