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JavaScript Angular Basics Setting Up an Angular Application Your First Angular Application

Posted by Alejandro Carvajal
Alejandro Carvajal
9,100 Points

WHY IS THIS COURSE SO INCOMPLETE?

I don't know whether it's the fact that Andrew tries to cram every bit of information possible into one video in order to name it, "Your First Angular Application" The way that he doesn't explain features and scripts that not even a regular use JavaScript developer understands or the way that he mentions helpful resources that aren't even in the teacher notes.

I have played the video over more than 10 times and I can't seem to grasp anything he does, why he does it, how it works, and why it needs to be the way he's teaching it. I have read given the webpack documentation both in the Angular website and Webpack website a detailed investigation but I just find more and more loose ends in this video.

I am not COMPLETELY lost, but I would appreciate some extra resources, links, or information that can lead me to understand this video a little better. Lately, I've been flustered with the lack of completion on courses in Treehouse other than your everyday CSS, HTML, JS, and Python courses. For example, the iOS course has very detailed instructions as to getting started! With this course, I had to go from taking basic Terminal syntax courses to handling Node.js and OOJS basics before even knowing how to work with Typescript which by the way, they don't even bother teaching in basics either.

I beg for some help with this course. I choose treehouse because sometimes, documentation like the one in Angular is much harder for an inexperienced programmer to dive headfirst into. Treehouse is that extra help to get me started with harder documentation courses but right now, I don't even know which one is harder.

4 Answers

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<noob />
17,062 Points
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17,062 Points

they switched their focus to web dev , ull find that the js,python maybe even php are solid. the react courses seems ok as well. u should try usemy

Christopher Canisius
Christopher Canisius
10,647 Points
Christopher Canisius
Christopher Canisius
10,647 Points

I have the exact same feeling with this course. Don't know where to start Googleling all the information he takes us for granted.

Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn
9,814 Points
Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn
9,814 Points

Yeah this is the first video on treehouse that has really irritated me. Andrew's accent at the best of times takes extreme focus to understand but usually I can manage, I spent 2 hours reading the teachers notes for a ten minute video and still felt somewhat lost. Even the way the code is presented in this demo is irritating. why throw the {} on the import statements then write the rest of the code only to come back in and put a component name in the curlys? Just write it properly to start with, unless you're going to explain what you're doing thoroughly, or hint at a best practice reason you're writing it like that - which doesn't happen.

Disappointing.