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General Discussion

Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers
93 Points

1 on 1 Consultations for Pro accounts?

I thought I read somewhere that Pro account membership gives you direct access to the instructors i.e. you're allowed 2-4 30 minute phone/skype calls with an instructor per month. The purpose would be to get direct answers to programming questions, pitfalls you've run into, or help with debugging.

After further researching the membership options, I realize that this doesn't actually exist, so I guess at this point this would be a proposal. I understand that this might be logistically difficult since I don't know exactly what the instructor to student ratio is, or what percentage of subscribers are Pro account holders. However, I imagine by modifying the length of calls, and or the number of calls allotted per month that the logistics could be smoothed out.

As previously mentioned, I realize that this is basically just a feature request that I want; however, I could see it being extremely popular, and a powerful incentive for upgrading basic accounts. I was recently exploring the possibility of upgrading to Pro; however, to be perfectly honest I just don't see the extra features warranting a doubling in per month membership costs. Furthermore, as I was researching this topic, I noticed a number of students expressing this very same ambivalence as it comes to the cost/benefit of upgrading.

In general, I think you guys have a truly great and unique product. Having in depth lessons and projects, and an active community that really wants to learn is something I haven't found anywhere else online. With that said, given the free content, tutorials, and Github projects/libraries strewn all across the internet, I'm sure you guys are acutely aware of just how competitive this space is.

In any case, I just wanted to share my ideas/thoughts, and hopefully start a conversation around how to make TTH flourish.

2 Answers

Michael, there are no one-on-one consultations at the pro-level that I'm aware of; however, Treehouse is looking into assigning mentors to groups of people. The process is still in beta, but keep a look out for it in the future.

Jonathan Söder
Jonathan Söder
7,428 Points

That would definitely make me upgrade and depending on the size of the group even pay extra.

I realize you're still quite new to Treehouse, but are there topic areas you would like help with in particular? For instance, CSS layout, JavaScript functions, job preparation, etc. Thanks for providing this bit of feedback.

(CC: Faye Bridge Nancy King)

Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers
93 Points

Thanks for the reply Dustin. Would it be possible to join the beta? I'd certainly love to be involved, provide feedback, and in general contribute to the betterment of the site in anyway possible.

Mike

For right now, it's in preparation to be piloted to students signed up at Code Oregon. However, I've tagged some Treehouse staff members who're helping see over the program. I'm sure they'll be able to see your feedback here.

Jonathan Söder
Jonathan Söder
7,428 Points

Not sure if the question was towards me or Michael,

Right now there are no particular areas I need help with, I'm mostly brushing up on my skills, just recently treading unknown (but exciting) waters with php and java. But having a real teacher you can go to with any concerns, thoughts or questions about anything topic relevant would be gold. It's like, I'm paying not just to watch the content but for this guy to actually help me should I need help with anything relevant to the course. One thing I can imagine I'd definitely ask about is real world problems and examples. Like, how did they achieve that? or would this be a good way to do this? or why isn't this working as intended? I just recently started browsing the forums, which is super awesome and everyone is super nice. But your own teacher, it just adds that extra layer, you know?