I hated this video!

Yeah I'd have to agree. condensing the code was way more confusing than getting it to work. I don't believe in learning styles, I think Guil is just oblivious to the complexity of this compared to what he showed us before, a side effect of being really good at something.

Guil absolutely took it to a whole new level in this video. It's great to see that you can add and maneuver codes around to make it easier to read and still make it function the same. I think this skill in this video takes a lot of practice and some experience. Just keep at it, keep learning, keep practicing, you will get there!

You might find this episode of The Treehouse Show helpful. It talks about different learning styles and blocks and ways to deal them them.

I'm a novice coder, but I have gone through all of the courses recommended to get to this one. I found myself sailing through it with ease and understanding everything immediately. It was fun. Then I hit the wall here in the last section. That usually means, it's time to learn something bigger and more challenging, and possibly important, which is why I'm here. After watching these last videos 3,4 and 5 times, taking notes, following along, etc, it's becoming clear and natural. Everything here seems to be built on something we covered in previous lessons/courses. Like others, I've had some issues and frustrating moments with courses and certain videos (sometimes because of the video, many others due to a lack of rest I had gotten between lessons or courses), but I have to say these JSDOM courses are very well put together. I think after mastering these lessons, a student would have the ability to look at a problem, and see the final solution more quickly, with less refactoring needed. They teach the steps leading up to the refactoring well, and help one's brain can understand the mechanics of the functions better. Hats off to Guil and Co. A lot of the value in Treehouse lies in learning how to use it.

I half agree with this post, I feel like from the beginning they should reinforce doing the code with the dont repeat yourself method instead of having us do it this long complicated way just to have it deconstruct it, i had a hard time getting my code to work because i was trying to follow guil while trying to understand what he was doing. Im trying to tell myself it will get easier but i feel if we would have just done it from the get go with the functions, I would have understood it better. thats my 2 cents

well code refactoring is something that is common in the real world. so it's important to cover, but i feel like this jumped from beginner to expert without any in-between... i didnt understand a lot of the logic behind what was being condensed, and how he knew that would work in the same manner.

don't feel bad! different people understand different things, you might grasp concepts that leave others with a gigantic questionmark above their heads ;) also rewatching videos (even more than once) might help. good luck!

However , I like this video , I already have learnt too much from this video to improve my coding looks better tank before. thanks Steven Parker

I thought this video was fairly well explained. However, I have been practicing writing JavaScript and using the DOM for a few weeks now and have a better grasp on how to create functions to simplify the code, following the DRY method.

I could see where the code became repetitive and knew that refactoring the code would help to decrease that and make our code more 'modular' and less cluttered. I can understand where you are coming from in trying to understand how this makes it 'easier to read' since adding in additional functions to do the same code makes your eyes jump across the page rather than in chronological order. But, using these functions can help save you time in writing out additional code later on, making changes to your functions, and (in some instances) writing less code thus making the files smaller and more efficient when it comes to load time.

If you had a hard time following, and pausing the video and rewinding a bunch of times still doesn't help you, then maybe following other videos on learning the DOM or Javascript Functions would better prepare you for this lesson. Like I had previously mentioned, I had some practice in this for a few weeks, so it was fresh in my mind and I was better able to follow along.

Hope you were able to follow along and best of luck in coding!