This course started great.

I agree. Many things are glossed over way too fast. Not so much as a reference link anywhere for some things as well.

I agree as well. I like to code along with the video, but how can I truly understand whats happening if I'm told just to write something with no explanation?

I have to concur with everyone here. A lot of the javascript courses were great and I felt like I learned a lot even with a little hand holding but this one pretty much has you sitting in the passenger seat while the driver is going 100 mph. Both the Angular and MEAN application course needs to get revised. I was better off reading article tutorials about MEAN stack and I thought by taking this course I would getter a better grasp on top of it. Instead I just feel more lost.

Hey Guys, I happen to be following along pretty nicely. Not because I'm just so smart, but because I took a class on Udemy called "The Web Developer Bootcamp" by Colte Steele. He covers everything here in GREAT detail but didn't include Angular (which is why I'm going through this course). I don't work for Udemy or Colt, I just supplement my Treehouse learning with Udemy and FCC and figured I'd let you guys know.

I'm glad to see that I;m not the only one struggling to follow this course. But I know I can go back to the first 2 modules if I need to, to refresh. But in the interin I'm afraid I'm just not following what's going on as much as I would like.

I got stuck a few videos back and decided to clone the project via the instructions in the video and henceforth lost the git log of my project history that I built up. Since then I;m just ghosting through the course. and as I write this the nodemon command isn't working so I'm not getting a localhost connection to express. Then again, I never got a full handle on Angular because like this, the course got complicated and there can't be an easy way to explain what's going on so on that score, I sympathise with Huston :)

Am I the only one or did the files that you got from the git clone (create-and-update-data-in-angular) not match the ones in the video?? Then I'm stuck trying to figure out if I should update the git files or if the files I received are correct and the video is out of date. I guess I chose wrong by updating the files to match because now my localhost just displays a black screen.

I was also frustrated when I realized (four or five videos in) that there was a new git clone for EVERY video, as opposed to building on the same file as in previous tracks. They need to add something like the Launch New Workspace pop up as in previous courses. The advantage is that if you get stuck on an error at least you can proceed through the track without having to solve it. I've gotten stuck a couple of times only to find (by asking one of my class mentors) that there are some very minor differences between Mac and PC coding that tripped me up that I would NEVER have been able to figure out on my own. In one instance it was \ instead of /. Arrrrgh.

Tony Brackins , thanks for sharing that class. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on Node and Express. For only $19, I will definitely check it out!

I'm finding the same thing. I have to go back and restart videos again and again. I've cloned the project into multiple folders because if I go away from it and come back I'm totally lost. By the end of this course I won't feel like I really know the MEAN stack as I expected to. The PHP course is taught much better.