This tutorial is confusing as @#$%!

Completely agree, lots of jumping about screens and drying up code when it isn't 100% clear what the exisiting code is doing. Really frustrating.

I was really frustrated with this course. In Dave's javascript there are way more animations to help visualize what is happening and there are none except for one at the start. The constant deleting and re-typing and going out of order to put in bits of code nested in comments is super confusing. If we set out a plan there shouldn't be a need to do any of that. Look up little web hut on youtube and watch videos 1 through 9. They are REALLY basic and I learned so much from them. Unfortunately even after that these classes won't make much sense. But for $25 a month I can deal with a not so great lesson every once in a while. So far CSS HTML and Javascript treehouse courses have been very good and have really helped me. The community is top notch as well.

Edit: I am making this edit months later after getting my hands dirty with html css js and php. He is definitely working in a stream of conscience style and thats not to say that makes him a bad programmer. There may be times when small bits of code may need to be moved around like this. But ideally these kinds of projects are fleshed out on the white board first.

Also I think these treehouse tracks are mostly an after-thought. So if you are on a javascript or web dev track, this course was not tailored to be an exact piece to the puzzle, just the closest thing they could find.

I am glad I am not alone. The teaching style doesn't work for me as well.

1. Too much talking at the beginning, not enough fun challenges.
2. Spend so much time looking for things in jQuery API. Scroll up and down. It's unnecessary.
3. The planning part, typing is so slow. I don't enjoy it. Do it fast, if we want, we can pause.
4. We are completely beginners for jQuery, don't assume we would understand it before a detailed explanation. For any concept, method.
5. Don't write a imperfect code then fix it later. We understand the concept, but it's confusing. Many of us would study the imperfect code for a long time and try to process it.

I will have to use a different tutorial to study jQuery again. JQuery is such an important part of front-end developing.

Btw. I really enjoyed Dave's courses too.

yep i agree. i spend so much time trying to understand whats going on and when I FINALLY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND, HE STARTS SAYING THAT WE SHOULDNT HAVE DONE THAT?? LIKE WTF

Yeah, I agree as well. The other courses were a lot more clear than this one; this has me getting lost every few minutes and having to rewind.