Module 4 Lesson 6 is all about the EnvironmentObject … until you get to the challenge, and then it all gets baffling with new concepts and elements we’ve not seen before (Toggle?).
I guess that’s the ‘learning curve’ for you. More sneaking a peek at the solution and working backwards to the challenge questions, making me feel a little like Agatha Christie plotting a murder mystery (she would work backwards from the reveal when writing her stories).
I figure it’s not “cheating”, it’s “learning”. It turns out that, sometimes looking at the solution is part of the learning – at least it is for me.
As I see it, the goal at the end of this is not for everything to “sink in”. Memorising a recipe of ingredients doesn’t bake a better cake. The goal is to understand what the language can do, and how to work out getting it to do what you want it to do. That way you’re baking your own cake, not making a verbatim copy of someone else’s.
Use every resource as part of the learning curve. Don’t think of the challenge as homework – no one’s going to be marking you on how well you’ve done. The only person who needs to appreciate and understand what we’ve learned is ourselves because, one day, we’ll be all we have.
Celebrate your willingness to learn. Don’t dwell on how you learn it. And remember, we’re right at the beginning of this – we’re going to stumble a lot more before we can stand on our own two feet.
