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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Traversing Elements with children

rodrick coleman
rodrick coleman
13,680 Points
Posted by rodrick coleman
rodrick coleman
13,680 Points

What is he talking about?

I have viewed other classes by this instructor. I have to view each of his lectures four to five times. By the time I get to the code challenge... Forget about it. Are there alternative instructors for the same course because his style of teaching leaves me lost in translation.

Sam Baines
Sam Baines
4,315 Points
Sam Baines
Sam Baines
4,315 Points

Hi Rodrick - even if you don't like the specific way the instructor teaches, all of the code challenges should still be passable by viewing the teachers notes, or in this case using the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) should be more than enough to get you through the course (infact that is exactly how I got through some of Andrew's course). Just remember the 4P's when approaching the problem to solve - Plan, Prepare, Perform & Perfect.

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Denis Udovcic
Denis Udovcic
13,649 Points
Denis Udovcic
Denis Udovcic
13,649 Points

I agree with you, firstly we plan it out and suddenly some binding. I was like wtf.

Ella Ruokokoski
Ella Ruokokoski
20,881 Points
Ella Ruokokoski
Ella Ruokokoski
20,881 Points

Yeah, I think Andrew's teaching is a bit confusing, I need to watch these many times before I actually learn to do things by myself. Code challenges weren't a problem but if somebody would have told me to build that application from scratch by myself I wouldn't have known where to start.

Eventually you'll learn but I think it would be more efficient to have more challenges in between about the method he goes through because there's a lot stuff he goes through in quite a fast pace.

The first time I watched these lessons I just ended up copying along and didn't really learn to do much by myself. I think I was overwhelmed by the amount of information that I just couldn't handle it the "right" way.

This second time watching, I am pausing the lessons and trying to figure out how to do stuff by myself so I would actually learn something from these lessons. I know that is kind of what is expected, going through the documentation by yourself and learning through testing and stuff. But... it would still be easier to learn - I think - if the lessons were broken up more and there were a few more challenges. I don't think Andrew is a bad teacher, though, don't get me wrong, I have learned a lot.

Denis Udovcic
Denis Udovcic
13,649 Points
Denis Udovcic
Denis Udovcic
13,649 Points

I started reading the book at http://eloquentjavascript.net/ just so I can understand this and other unexplained courses. Hopefully it will help.

Muhammad Raznan
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Muhammad Raznan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,440 Points
Muhammad Raznan
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Muhammad Raznan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,440 Points

i understand how his way of teaching might be confused by some people, cuz his way of referencing the code. i think going thru the basic knowledge of document/node/javascript object might`ve help