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Ifeanyi Gbemudu
2,054 PointsWhy isn't the teacher typing though?
copy & pasting code is very boring and doesn't encourage following through. This video has been very difficult for me to follow.
It's new with all the "$" signs and instantly codes just appear onscreen. Been really tempted to skip this. Just saying.
Marcell Hawke
7,612 PointsI thought the VERY same thing mate. I was like "OH COME ON... ANOTHER COPY AND PASTE? WHY IS SHE DOING THIS?" . Decided to come to the forum to discuss about this and boom there was another person with the same problem as me.
Sorry but these copy and paste videos does not encourage us to follow thru at all not to mention it gets hard as heck to us who never even heard about jQuery.... PLEASE make teachers T Y P E from now on it makes a hell lot of difference.
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Tanner Cruiseship
5,707 PointsYeah I'm not feeling this section at all. There are really good JQuery lessons on the youtube channel learncode.adademy but I'm also hearing people say it's becoming obsolete. I'm just gonna skip this section.
Saqib Ishfaq
13,912 Points@tanner cruiseship yeah that's true same as i heard , Jquery is obsolete after ES6 is implemented everywhere! thats why i skipped j-query as well :)
Jesse Thompson
10,684 Pointslmao I was about to post the exact same question.
I wouldnt recommend for people to skip jquery though imho. There are simple things like onswipe that are easily done very quickly with a little bit of jquery code.
Tanner Cruiseship
5,707 PointsBut that means attaching a whole library just to shorten a few lines of code, likely affecting load times. I guess you could make a custom library with just the parts you use, I dunno I'm too new to have an opinion.
Ned Redmond
5,615 PointsYeah, I would much prefer being walked through the syntax here, since this is all new to me.
M Glasser
10,868 PointsM Glasser
10,868 PointsI found this Introduction to jQuery to be pretty much pointless and really tested my patience. But I think it's intended to be exactly that... a very simple and broad introduction / overview...
I'd work through it anyway just so you can have a rough idea of how things work before jumping in and really attempting to grasp how things work. I learned WAY more from Dave's course on jQuery plug-ins (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/using-jquery-plugins), reading the intro guides on the jQuery site, and then watching Andrew's jQuery Basics course only after I had an ok grasp on things. Tried jumping into Andrew's jQuery Basics first and got lost quickly. So I would recommend other resources before attempting to follow his examples.