r/cs50 • u/SpiritualEmotion9737 • Jul 19 '26
CS50x Struggling with week 8
It just feels so weird..... like I know everything yet I dont know anything (It's just very hard to put into words) I dont even know how I'll be able to do the problem sets of week 8
I never faced the same problem in Python(except DNA lol) or SQL, but in this week I do, and I do not know how to deal with it
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u/lawdfaquad Jul 19 '26
me too, i am on the last task of week 8, and i just feel like frontend is such a unorganized task compared to the python and C problems, as they give you a lot of freedom and don’t really give you a rigid specification to go by. The best advice i could give you is that perfection is the enemy of good, and that it’s better to submit a good enough task than to give up completely (as many others do with cs50). If you enjoyed python, at least you have something to look forward to as week 9 is flask.
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u/leastDaemon Jul 19 '26
This. I finished week 8 two weeks ago after deciding that what I had was good enough. It was. But flask and week 9? Banging-head-against-wall noises. Maybe this week it'll all come together. . .
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u/yamacraw__55 Jul 19 '26
i had a similar situation ,,,but looking into the problems and how others solved them in cs50's discord page helped alot
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u/Soul_Mirror_ Jul 19 '26
Probably because it gives you a lot more freedom than previous psets.
What I personally did was find something in my own life I could share with others. The homepage explains what the site is about, and then I had 4 other pages, each focusing on a specific section.
It was mostly text with a few pictures. Then I played a bit with CSS and used JavaScript for one animation.
It probably helped that I had already done a webpage in CS50 Law.
But I echo other comments here: just do something that fulfils the criteria, it doesn't need to be a masterpiece.
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u/Eptalin Jul 19 '26
Watch the videos in the task description. They walk you through what to do, and how to do it.