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Christian Cargill
8,065 PointsWhy is the jquery course before the "Build an interactive websites with JS" course?
The JS basics was a great introduction to learning JS syntax and concepts, but there was no segway into the jQuery course. Just wondering if this was intentional.
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Chris Ward
12,129 PointsYou need to learn the basics...jQuery is fun to use and essential today. Check out AJAX while you're at it. Interactive sites should update themselves automatically without us needing the redundant extra clicks.
Christian Cargill
8,065 PointsYeah, I agree that learning the basics is of course the proper way to do things. But, if you took the Javascript basics course (which barely ever mentioned the DOM) and then transitioned right into the jQuery course - most of the videos were made in a manner that assumed you knew what the DOM was, and what the window object were. Not to mention how the entire jQuery course basically skips over explaining things to you directly (like the JS basics did) and has you learn by doing entire projects.
Ironically, the next course (Building a website with JS) starts off explaining how JS is used to modify the DOM, and what it all means. So, I mean as someone who just took all of these courses in the past few weeks, I would say the logical track would go:
JS basics > Build a website with just JS > jquery (as jquery is like a shorthand method of manipulating the DOM - but why do we learn this before we even learn the basics of JS + DOM?) It's just presented so confusing I suppose. Hey, maybe I'm wrong - what do I know? :P