What would you do....

That's great. Keep on learning. You know, you don't really fail just because something comes out wrong a few times (or even never comes out totally right). You only fail when you quit. Just look at a child learning to walk, always falling down. Do they see falling as failure? Heck no, they don't quit. They get right back up after stumbling. In fact, we shouldn't even call it failing. We should call it stumbling. And our failures are not failures, they're stumbling blocks. I'm going to have to remember to refer to it as just that from now on. Take care.

Jason when I did the challenge I had to refer back to the videos for a couple of bits. My code wasn't quite the same as Guill's but it worked. I also looked online for a bit of help.

Although there's a lot of well presented content on here, it doesn't really employ some of the best pedagogy. In other words, the teaching doesn't really reflect the learning process. Particularly not with language acquisition which is kind of what this is - another language).

So don't be perturbed if it doesn't click - I feel the same as you sometimes. I'm going to think of how I want to apply Javascript and work towards that specific goal - hopefully it'll help contextualise it better.

Thanks to Mark Casavantes, and Rick Gleitz for your encouragement.. I am telling myself off for worrying about it so much i'm going to redo my JavaScript course.. I have three weeks off work at the moment so i'm going to learn it...

Thanks again..

Good Afternoon Jason,

Sometimes we hit a stopping point. Work on Design, Business, Digital Literacy or some other library topic and then try your Javascript again. I like watching https://thecodingtrain.com/Tutorials/ or do some problems on https://edabit.com/. I find some topics easier after working on something else. Also, take notes during the videos and record your wrong answers during quizzes. You can always Google topics you are having trouble with. Do not give up. Everything you learn is helpful.

Thank you,

Mark

This thread really gave me the encouragement I needed. This challenge really threw up some doubts for me also. But reading everyones suggestions has helped me re think things. Thanks to you all.

It's been awhile since the original post, so I am guessing you have kept at it and gotten over this challenge and many more. I am just arriving at this one and can see where the frustration comes from. I think one thing I often struggle with is that that the objectives outlined in these challenges and quizzes can often be a bit vague for my liking. When learning about these concepts, the commands make a lot of sense to me, but when the instructors try to put our skills to use they often lay out the challenges in ways that can be open for interpretation. This might seem a bit ridiculous but when I got to this challenge, I really did not understand what the objective was at all. I feel like a lot of my frustrations could be alleviated with more thorough directions. Hopefully your JavaScript and all other tracks were swift and more encouraging later down the line. I hope this for myself as well.