Very confusing video narrative

I think the issue on this video was that on around 5:27, it would have helped if Andrew had told us why he was showing various ways of including jQuery in a file before showing us the various ways to do it (like the anonymous function, ready method etc). At the end he says "I showed you this so you don't panic at the different ways to include it in a file", which made it all click, but got lost and panicked at first 'cause I didn't know the why before diving into a brand new concepts.

Other than this, I have been able to follow along without issue so far.

Andrew seems nice but I am a consumer at the end of the day. I have to agree with everything being said above.

I love Treehouse. I love Treehouse so much that I hope to soon give you my money for a year long membership and hope to someday see everything you guys have to offer. That being said, it feels like I'm getting a hernia every time I watch Andrew's videos. I get it, there's probably many behind the scene happenings that the viewer won't comprehend but as someone who is paying for a service, I'm pretty disappointed man.

I like his style and find it very entertaining and informative! I like Dave McFarland's style too though. Treehouse ftw!

Unfortunately I have to agree, it seems all to obvious that he is reading off a script and without getting to personal his accent makes him hard to understand. I'm Going to stick with it though...

I guess I'm in the minority here, judging from the comments above, but so far I've found this course to be paced just right. Andrew's explanations have cleared up some things that have been mystifying me for a while - and have helped me get past a tricky spot in one of my side projects. Also, it makes a pleasant change to hear a familiar accent. :) So far so good, I'm very glad to have reactivated my Treehouse subscription!

Agreed. I tried this course months ago and gave up on it as I felt it was just too confusing for me. Came back to it after doing a lot of other material and feeling very confident in my jQuery skills and I still really don't like it for your exact reasons. He even makes things I already know confusing...

Although I think Dave McFarland is great and explains completely, but for someone like me who knows about programming, it was soooo boring to see a 10 minute video about what is an array or loop or etc.! The whole JavaScript course was so slow and it was possible to teach all of them in half an hour (unless you don't know the basics of programming). I like Andrew Chalkley's style so far because he moves fast and that's what I want, to be able to learn the fundamentals of jQuery in 1 or two days!

At 6:18 is where my mind got blown. It just went a little fast for the amount of information being given. But overall, I understand the point of being shown all this after having seen how other developers use different methods. The example at least gives us a way to interpret other developers' codes.

Hey Andrew, thanks for the reply! I don't have the time to make an incredibly thorough post right now, but after going through the course again I would say a major issue for me was how much new information was being presented at once. It is definitely important to learn aspects like DRY programming or the 4 P's of problem solving, but when coupled with the jQuery-specific information it can be a bit much to digest in each video. I feel like that information would be better suited for it's own course? I also feel like workspaces provides you with too much of the finished projects and that I'm mindlessly copying what you say.

Sorry to seem so negative in my posts. You're clearly a very skilled programmer that knows his stuff, but I just find there's so much going on in some of these videos that the lesson can become muddled.

I have the same feeling

I really enjoyed the start of this course and felt Andrew was doing a great job at explaining things at the very start. Unfortunately after the DOM section things start to get really confusing and I am finding myself not understanding whats going on half the time. I think its helpful to understand things you might come across and other variations, but as a beginner, I don't have any idea what half this stuff does anyway. Personally I would leave the "other ways to do things" type stuff until later videos, when these problems might arise.

Also there seems to be a lot of videos all at once without the work-space, I learn best by actually doing it - as I seem to switch off during long videos without activity. I personally found the Beginner JavaScript course really good for that.

I'm struggling with this section also.

I am having problems as well, specifically when you talk about downloading or integrating something "that “suites me best"”, when i don't even know what I can do with it.