This tutorials could be so much better and in it's current form is not entirely beginner friendly

I would agree, he moves so fast and doesn't explain it as he goes to why. Plus, he does the one thing that makes me nuts in a tutorial, he names things so similar that you get lost with with what is a variable, a function, or an object, etc. You've got a variable named "playlist" and a new object named "Playlist"? I know this is intermediate, but I'm too advanced to listen to someone explain a function and too new to understand all of this junk.

I would agree that Dave can be a little more digestible than Andrew for a beginner. Don't be discouraged though. If something is not clear in a lesson you can always ask questions on the forum and most likely will get an answer pretty quickly if you provide details.

What helped me is going over the same topic multiple times with different instructors and also creating simple projects for myself to practice what I learned. The repetition helps but also different people explain different concepts better so they end up reinforcing each other's lessons.

Work through a stage in a course. If you have questions just ask on the forum. Also look at some other sources. (I recommend LearnCode.Academy and DevTips on YouTube - they have pretty good beginner tutorials). Come up with a simple project/exercise to practice what you learn. Once it's more clear then take the next stage in the course. Repeat.

Good Luck!!

I agree with this. I was absolutely cruising until I hit the projects. I do feel like I'm just copying his code. There needs to be more of a breakdown for the object methods and how they interact. I understand it's "intermediate", but all that means to me is that you understand the very basics of JS (functions, conditional statements, variables, etc) prior to the course. More explanation of how you go about preparing to create this type of application would be very helpful.

I'm sympathetic to the teacher because I know that sometimes when you think you're dumbing it down and you know this information like the back of your hand, you don't realize how much you're not dumbing it down. Especially for someone who has never created an object-oriented application!

He probably assumes that if you're up to this point, you've done the other stuff in the JavaScript: Full Stack Developer track, or at least the JavaScript Basics course. It's not practical to explain every nuance in every course.

That said, whenever there's multiple ways to do things, it would be nice to hear which way is the current best practice or accepted convention among pro developers.

I would agree with the things already said here. I think this course would be very well served with a lot more (any, really) code challenges. One thing I dislike about tutorials like this is having all of the 'scaffolding' work done for me. That's where most of the planning and thinking through the problem occurs. When you have a tutorial like this that does that work for you, not only do you have to try and follow the new code that is being written you have to try and think through the existing code's logic and see how it all fits together.

Not saying it can't be done, but it might be easier to digest if a code challenge had us create some of the existing objects so we would know where they came from and why they are there before we start building on them.

I also agree 100% and glad I'm not the only one. Hopefully this course is updated in the future.

Yeh, I've attempted to sit through this course several times. Way too much information in individual videos, and that information is so watered down that it almost becomes a distraction from whatever it is that's supposed to be the main takeaway. I find myself asking "what was I actually supposed to learn in this video?"