[Zac Gordon]

Correct 🙂

[Zac Gordon]

Hi Jose!

Did you hit the Mark Complete button for each video and pass the quiz at 100%?

If so I will look into this…

Thanks!
Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Hi!

It sounds like you signed up for just Part 4 for Free, correct? In order to access Parts 1-3 you will need to enroll in the full course 🙂

Hope that helps!
Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Hey Scott!

Welcome back 🙂

Downloads are provided on a video by video basis.

So, just head back to where you left off and you can start from there.

Hope that helps!
Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Hi Sin!

You signed up for the Free Part 4 so you should have access to Part 4 here: https://javascriptforwp.com/parts/projects/

The other parts will remain unavailable until you register for the full course.

Please let me know if you cannot access Part 4 – you do have access from the back end.

Thanks!
Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Oh I’m so happy to hear this 🙂 it opens up a whole new world doesn’t it! Glad you’re feeling empowered!!!

[Zac Gordon]

Hmmm, that is interesting. Not sure if that is one of the premium features or not.

However once you get going a little bit further we switch out of JSBin and use a local code editor. In the JS tools I’ll show you how to setup your own linters.

[Zac Gordon]

Hmmm, that is interesting. Not sure if that is one of the premium features or not.

However once you get going a little bit further we switch out of JSBin and use a local code editor. In the JS tools I’ll show you how to setup your own linters.

[Zac Gordon]

Hey Verdon!

Actually they are probably related to how the error messages are configured in the settings.

If there is a place where you’re seeing then on my demo but not on your end, you can take a screenshot and I can try to figure out exact what the difference is 🙂

Hope that helps!

Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Good question.

I actually went back and forth on what to call the “preferred” method for declaring functions since you will see a lot of functions in JS that are not assigned as variables.

The added benefit of assigning functions as variables is that you can later change the function assigned to the variable, which is not too common really. However, one extra thing you can do is assign the function to a different variable name if you needed to refer the function as something else in another context.

Although I do call this preferred here, I have talked to some pros since making the video who don’t feel its usually necessary to take this extra step.

Hope this unpacks the topic a bit more for you?

[Zac Gordon]

Hi Bonnie!

You raise a great question here and it really comes down to coding styles.

In general the WP coding standards like you to define things in variables before using and if you’re ever going to use something twice you definitely want to assign it as a variable.

That said, combining it all into one statement is completely valid. As we look at more advanced JS and stuff outside the WP community, like with the different frameworks you may see more of this style of combining calls into one line of code rather than several.

Hope this helps explain!!!

[Zac Gordon]

William thank you so much for sharing this.

I agree that more defined exercises could be helpful, but I left them out for two reasons:

1. Was a matter of time involved for myself and the student. In addition to creating all of the examples, to create different exercises too is a lot and at the moment I really need to focus on rolling out more content.
2. Although we cover a lot of content before getting to the projects, like VanillaPress, these are really the best way to practice since we’re really building something practical and fully functioning.

Once the content is all complete I will be going back to try to improve the course more pedalogically and will definitely remember what you point out here because as the instructor I agree.

Hopefully you can follow Joseph’s lead a bit here and play around with your own extra exercises and practice, which is sounds like you have been doing a bit.

Hope this helps and thanks again!!

[Zac Gordon]

You are right!

I am not sure of the specific reasons, except that the creator of JS thought it would be helpful to include both of these functions. I imagine the influence of strongly typed languages and really wanted to clear what type of number you would get back was part of it.

You’re right the differences you pointed out are quite technical and not something you probably need to really understand at this point.

Somethings like different index points though should make sense as you move into arrays http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9528433/behavior-difference-between-parseint-and-parsefloat

Hope that helps? Great question!!!

[Zac Gordon]

Thanks for adding this!

Yes, they’re quite similar to each other at the core.

[Zac Gordon]

Hi, hopefully you got answers for your questions regarding Part 2 content.

As for subtitles yes the early videos have them but the more current ones do not yet. They will be coming in not too long, but we had to switch provides due to cost and haven’t got them back up and running.

[Zac Gordon]

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the feedback on the video length. I definitely agree that shorter is better but in order to offer and organize soo much content I have hard to make some videos much longer than I normally would. The downside is they take longer to watch, but the upside is when navigating a section there may be only 20 some videos instead of 70 of them.

I understand there are some tradeoffs there and where I can, I will definitely shoot for shorter videos. However, at least for this section on tools, there are going to be a few more long videos coming.

Hope that explains things a bit.

[Zac Gordon]

Hey William, this may just be a Wistia caching issue. Is the issue still happening for you? Strange it would be in two browser..

[Zac Gordon]

Hi folks!

I just added some simple JavaScript to open up new links in tabs 🙂

Should have taken the time to do that a long time ago! Sorry for the missed links.

[Zac Gordon]

Tomas, I just shot you an email with a follow up!

[Zac Gordon]

Hi folks!

Just wanted to drop a quick update that I have a Slack team setup and will have details about invitations and uses for you in next week’s content update.

Cheers!
Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Aw yes, event propagation 🙂 makes sense, you’ll enjoy that video. Very important topic not a ton of folks understand. Sorry I missed that!!!

[Zac Gordon]

Hey Jason!

My first suggestion would be to make the tab titles actual links. They can have a URL of #tab-x and then the related content area would have related IDs so the links work even if JS isn’t applied (just make sure you are doing the initial hiding of the content via JS so if there is no JS you can still access the content).

You did some good thinking with your accordion code, but you might find tweaking the html like this make it easier. It may also solve your double click issue just with the titles being links with preventDefault applied.

Let me know how that goes..

[Zac Gordon]

Hey Rich!

You should have access now. It looks like something got messed up with the Woo/LearnDash integration. It’s working now and you should have full access. Apologies for the problems!!!

Cheers
Zac

[Zac Gordon]

Oh good! Glad that helped 🙂 Yes, some people prefer things this way..

[Zac Gordon]

Hi Alexander!

I like this idea and think others would benefit as well.

I’d be interested in collaborating with you on this since I am concerned about promising full support via Slack (hence the forums) but do like the idea of a single central Slack channel when students can collaborate.

If I setup an official student Slack channel would you be interested in moderating it?

Of course all are welcome to break off into study groups, which is great, but to my knowledge there is not a group Slack going that folks have shared.

Thanks!!!

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