This teacher cannot teach i'm sorry

i dislike courses like this alot where its just copy and paste. he needs to give more explanations and we need challenges in the end.

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i am the opposite, i find it very easy to learn with Andrew Chalkley

I agree with you Max. I mean no disrespect to the teacher but compared to the rest of the teachers here, his teaching approach is mediocre. In my opinion, he makes a lot of mistakes with his terminology. For example, he sometimes says 'remove' when he should say 'hide'. He corrects himself in the videos, I will give him that but it just makes the learning process all the more difficult. There are a bit more things I find problematic in his teaching methods, but my point was to simply show that I agree with you Max.

The major criticism I have for Andrew is that his challenges are ridiculously easy. Yes they test the concept, but if i don't struggle i don't remember. He even specifies the LINE where we need to make the change in the code. That should probably be a hint.

Other than that one nitpick, I love this course and the teacher really presents the material well.

I also really like Andrew and find his courses easy to follow (I'm an absolute jQuery beginner). I guess everybody learns differently, but I think Andrew's courses are excellent.

I'm sorry to say that I agree with many of the remarks here. I don't like to disparage people making an effort to educate, as I myself am an educator. But constructive criticism is generally a good thing. In my opinion, Andrew's tendency not to explain what he's doing until after he's done it, and so, after the point at which I'm already confused, is one of the biggest problems I have. Additionally, Andrew tends not to use pronouns clearly. When talking about multiple objects, they'll all be referred to as "it" or "this", and after a few instances of each, you just lose track of what he's talking about (the problem is compounded by the use of the 'this' keyword. There are a handful of other problems I've got with Andrew's style, but those might be down to my own idiosyncrasies. He clearly knows what he's talking about, though -- obviously. But in a lot of ways, as some people have said, he doesn't explain things -- he just tells us what to write. It'd be like if I wanted to learn about cricket, and went to someone for help, and the person put on a cricket match. Then they say, "Here you go," rather than explaining the rules and concepts so that I can understand what I'm seeing. Eventually I'll get it, but it's not the most efficient way to transmit ideas.

No disrespect to Andrew, but I also cannot follow his style. The reason I struggle with it is because during the "Plan" phase, he just goes out and writes the pseudo-code without explaining his underlying thought process. The real magic of the other teachers is they go one layer deeper, explaining why they're coding the high-level pseudo-code the way they are. Andrew just jumps straight into the pseudo-code and I have absolutely no idea what's going on because it's all happening without context or a frame of reference for the final product. Too abstract.

I agree with the fact that he does not explain the concept of the project as why we are doing this, what can be another approach etc. The projects used are good but the way he explains it is not indepth. It feels like u r doing what he is asking u to do. No brainstorming.

being completely new to web development I find the teaching style difficult at times because the lack of explanation of the overall process + my lack of knowledge of jquery. The one thing that helped me was creating a site and trying to implement some of things he teaches in this course like the lightbox. Doesn't mean I have completely grasped the concept yet and I didn't expect to. I think the information you learn in this track takes a while to settle in especially if you are new like me. In learning you want everything to make sense immediately and then use the information you just acquired. I find that with this subject matter it takes a while to fully understand. Hang in there. I'm still trying to make sense of everything!

An update: I took a couple more classes with this teacher and I am starting to agree with Max. This teacher is alright when he follows a specific procedure/outline, but in classes that require more explanation, I feel lost and like I didn't really learn much.

I really like Andrew method. He always refer to documentation. His method really helpful for people who don't speak english like me. He makes me comfortable with documentation. He always make pseudo-code for the process of thinking.

This teacher's teaching method is a big change from the others but I do like that he shows the process of how to think through a problem, find a solution, and implement the solution. My worry is getting the order of implementation wrong but then I guess the idea is to set up your own projects, practice, make booboos, and solve them. That is the best way to learn overall.

I like Andrew's teaching style, also jQuery probably isn't an easy thing to explain to complete beginners.

I jz love the way Dave teaches us!I mean he just fills us with concept & everything we need to know about when,how,why.But I find andrews style bit of mugged up approach!I want to know the reason,I wanna know y? along with how!