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Posted by Sankara Narayanan
Sankara Narayanan
6,038 Points

Best Practises for treehouse?

Hey guys,

This question is out of curiosity

How do you guys learn from treehouse?

Do you guys take notes? In a notebook or in evernote(note taking software)

I have a separate physical notebook for business courses and took notes while pasan and dan where teaching.

If it is coding, then I will first try out that code and then make a note of it in a separate notebook.

So how do you guys do it? Just take notes and practice after the stage or even the end of the course? or Practice while the watching the video?

I am curious to know how you guys learn from treehouse

Any tips or suggestions to maximise my learning here?

2 Answers

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points
Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

Hi Sankara!

What I do is I just watch the video and follow what the teacher is coding out and then afterwards I will try and complete the code challenges and quizzes without any additional help!

-Luke

Tristan Eason
Tristan Eason
13,400 Points
Tristan Eason
Tristan Eason
13,400 Points

I can answer this from a coding perspective. In some of the newer videos, it gives you the ability to use the Treehouse console to follow along with the lessons, which in itself is awesome. The way I have it set up is by having the video in one window that takes up half the screen with the console in another window taking up half the screen (thank goodness for responsive design) so I can easily follow along. In any instance of learning to code, doing it enables me to learn the quickest and it's really awesome to have a video teacher over reading a tutorial blog, although those are great too.

For the video lessons that don't require/recommend the Treehouse console, I just have my text editor or terminal set up to occupy half the screen and continue in the same manner as explained above. Hope this helps!