Objects and Object Constructors: "Gentle explanation of this in Javascript" article long-stretched and text-heavy

[ShinnyD]

Objects and Object Constructors: "Gentle explanation of this in Javascript" article long-stretched and text-heavy

[khhuang7]

2. For both you and @khhuang7, do either of you feel that the issue with the existing resource could be in part due to how large this particular lesson is? That is, would the existing resource feel more consumable if it didn't come at the end of an already lengthy amount of reading?

No, the resource itself is challenging to read (language/phrasing, structure). I came back to it on separate days and still struggled to get through it.

[KevinMulhern]

Thanks for the suggestion @ShinnyD, I'd like to get input from our @TheOdinProject/javascript team please?

[thatblindgeye]

Personally I'm not super into replacing the existing resource with a 6 minute video (or rather, 100 seconds of a video with the rest being "optional"). I'd rather either update the assignment item to call out which sections are mandatory reading from that resource (with the other sections being something to come back to if the user is interested) or replacing it with another text based resource.

With something like this, it is extremely helpful to write the code in the console and tinker around with it to get more of a grasp on it. So while it i a lot of reading if you're plowing through it in one go, I think it' overall more helpful than the concept being summed up in 100 seconds (since it's not exactly a straight forward concept).

[khhuang7]

That existing resource is an incredibly difficult read - in addition to what @ShinnyD mentions, the language is often awkward for a non-technical beginner to understand. (I have done some other programming, and I work/live speaking a second language so have a lot of practice trying to understand the intent of broken English - if I struggled, I'm sure plenty of true beginners would struggle too!)

I'm new to the topic myself but tried to find some more directly replaceable resources, what do you think? (@thatblindgeye ?)

1. JavaScript Tutorial - covers the same four function invocations, as well as arrow functions
2. freeCodeCamp - covers the same material but in a slightly different structure, and also includes events

(Happy to help make changes if agreed upon.)

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[thatblindgeye]

Still mulling over whether we should update this existing resource, but a couple of questions to pose:

1. @ShinnyD What do you think of the JavaScript Tutorial resource linked above?
2. For both you and @khhuang7, do either of you feel that the issue with the existing resource could be in part due to how large this particular lesson is? That is, would the existing resource feel more consumable if it didn't come at the end of an already lengthy amount of reading?