Hi @c.sanchezharris !
Welcome to the forum!
You are pretty early on in your learning journey and there is a lot of information thrown at you.
So here is my suggestion for all beginners going through the certification.
Watch the videos or read the transcripts and treat it as an introduction to a topic. You are not expected to understand everything and remember everything after watching or reading. Forgetting is very common.
For some of these videos, you might understand 90% of it. For others on harder topics, you might understand 10% of it the first time around.
Just treat all of these lectures as an introduction and beginning.
Then you get to the workshops. This is your chance to start practicing and learning how all of this works.
Again, this is will still be new so it is fine if you don’t understand everything. But you will start to understand more than before. Also, if you need to review something, re watch or re read a transcript for review.
Then you get to the labs. This is your chance to practice your skills again without the step based approach.
In this stage, you will start to feel more comfortable writing the code. But also will run into new problems of building our projects and solving problems for the first time. This is also normal and happens to tens of thousands of people. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and google when you get stuck.
Once you complete the labs and workshops for that section, then you have a review page and quiz. Those are there to help you review what you have learned before you move to the next section.
Take it day by day just aiming to learn a little bit each day. Some things will make sense. While others will take a lot longer.
For example, when I went through an older version of the curriculum back in 2020, tons of things didn’t make sense. There was so much information to learn and it was overwhelming at times.
But I just took it day by day and never gave up and was able to land a job.
So that is my advice to you.
Hope that helps 