Why didn't Treehouse just finish off where it started (very upset)

Thanks for the reply James,

I just presumed that Allison Grayce would carry on where Nick Pettit finished. This way, I would be in the safe knowledge that the code is basically the same. So it was really annoying to find out that new classes had been implemented in the HTML, accompanied by its counterpart CSS rules.

It's demoralizing to know that an educational service such as Treehouse with great teachers, cannot offer tutorials in consistency. Because I went from creating smells like bakin from scratch with Nick, to copy pasting with Allison :(

Hi Alex Colleoni,

I'm sorry the differences between these two tutorials confused you. :( Like James mentioned, these tutorials were created in parallel, so there are slight differences between the two and it's always best to grab the files up front.

I'm working hard right now to refresh and eventually replace this content with a new course. Like Keith mentioned below, we've learned quite a lot since we first started. Creating courses is actually very complex, so while this particular issue seems like an obvious mistake, it wasn't one that we were able to foresee at the time. We've since fixed the environment and workflow that's allowed it to happen, but it's taking us some time to develop new material to replace it.

Thank you for your understanding and patience. If you have any more questions, feel free to @ mention us in the forum and we'll help you out! :)

Hello Nick Pettit

Thanks for the reply. It's just James Barnett stated that it is a good idea to download each project as and when we click on a video tutorial. But the only reason I joined up to Treehouse was because I thought I would learn step by step in increments and not just download a zipped file that already has the code typed in. It just feels as though I haven't learned anything that way.

I come from a Object Orientated background, and most of the video tutorials I used to watch were from Lynda.com (which were free)... So me paying to watch tutorials on Treehouse speaks volumes as it was something different and got me involved through its interactive code challenges etc.

However, I was watching a video by Andrew Chalkley ( Websites > Build an Interactive Website > Form Validation and Manipulation > Modifying Attributes). He created an if and else statement in his video tutorial like below, and did not state the convey the syntactically correct way to create if and else statements.

 if (true)  $(this).next().removeClass("error").addClass("valid");
             else   $(this).next().removeClass("valid").addClass("error");

I am not complaining, it's just frustrating because important syntax is not being explained properly and video tutorials are just being rushed through, and when it comes to code challenges I have to watch the video 3x over to grasp what the teacher is vaguely stating and have to Google key terms that aren't being explained.

Anyway, please take what I say as constructive because I love the notion of Treehouse and I hope to see the refreshed content and carry on this adventure.

Hi there Alex,

I'm sorry to hear of your frustrations.

Build an Interactive Website website switches gears significantly due to it being an advanced course, and there's lots of programming involved. I just had a look at your profile and you may benefit from taking JavaScript Foundations as this will ease you in to JavaScript. There's even Introduction to Programming course which is also in JavaScript.

We are looking in to creating a more Basic jQuery course to ease people in.

Out of interest which Learning Adventure were you on?

Regards Andrew