HTML5 Game Development - Response to feelings of frustration with the course

Feeling kinda tossed in the deep end...

Without code completion, meaningful error messages, written examples, or the ability to see the examples while I'm coding, I'm feeling pretty helpless. Those are the 4 tools I use to learn how to do things, and we don't have any of them.

I'm sure the videos are all recorded by now so that can't be changed. And the Udacity interface isn't going to change overnight either. So I don't see really anything that can be done.

It's just really frustrating. I was very excited about this course but now I feel like for every minute of lecture time I watch, I'm gonna spend 5 looking up stuff on wikipedia and google.

http://forums.udacity.com/questions/100018746/feeling-kinda-tossed-in-the-deep-end?focusedAnswerId=100019169&sort=votes&page=1#cs255

And the response:

This is a response to this post, cross-posted as its own question so it's easier to respond to and see. Please read the question to understand what I'm responding to.

This has been a common complaint so far, and I'd like to address it and why, I think, it's happening, as well as what I'd like to do about it.

One, we're trying to cater to two different audiences here. The first is web developers who already have experience with Javascript, but don't know how game development translates into their field. I think we're doing a decent job of reaching that audience, though please correct me if I'm wrong, or we can do anything to better reach you if you're in that audience.

The next is people who already have programming knowledge, but don't have knowledge of Javascript specifically. I think this is really where we're falling down. Our original idea was to not target this audience as well, but we, and specifically I, wanted to at least try to bridge the gap a bit for people who didn't already have web development experience.

https://forums.udacity.com/questions/100019171/response-to-feelings-of-frustration-with-the-course#cs255