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Posted by Bilal Junaidy
Bilal Junaidy
1,775 Points

Approach to learning

question, the things is that I have just started at treehouse and I take down notes for each individual video. This makes it easy for me to remember the stuff but it makes it a really slow process. I feel that if I wont take down notes then most probably I will forget the stuff that I learned and thus would have to re-watch the videos. What would you recommend me to do and what is your approach to learning?

3 Answers

Dave Faliskie
Dave Faliskie
17,793 Points
Dave Faliskie
Dave Faliskie
17,793 Points

When I started using treehouse I did the same thing and took notes with every video. Then after I had some basic understanding on programming I started coding along with the videos. I think taking notes is good at first, however once you start to understand general concepts its easy to just google a specific ways to write stuff. But basically do what ever helps you learn best.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Here's my basic process:

  1. Watch the videos
  2. Take notes on the important concepts as well as syntax using workflowy
  3. Refer back to your notes about syntax when doing the code challenges
  4. At the end of each badge build a little something for practice using the concepts you've just learned on codepen for CSS stuff or runnable for Ruby stuff.

The real trick is to remember what's possible and how to reference it. So when I can't remember the exact syntax of a CSS property, I consult a CSS quick reference which I keep in my bookmark bar for handy reference. And for Ruby syntax this is a handy reference

This topic has been dicussed a few times in this forum here are 2 great threads on the topic:

Bilal Junaidy
Bilal Junaidy
1,775 Points
Bilal Junaidy
Bilal Junaidy
1,775 Points

Thanks a lot for the help, really appreciate it